Mike Mahony
Senior Software Engineer (Story And Edit) at Pixar Animation Studios
Emeryville, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Mahony is a senior full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, test-first systems for film production, post-production pipelines, and distributed web applications. Currently at Pixar, he blends deep backend skills (Go, Python, RabbitMQ, Redis) with front-end work (Angular, Node.js) to deliver tools that bridge native desktop workflows and cloud services. He has a strong track record of shipping production-grade features—from sync clients and streaming integrations at Artella to pipeline tooling that supported Pixar releases—and contributes to OpenTimelineIO improving EDL and XML interoperability for editorial timelines. Known for architectural simplicity, mentorship, and an ability to stay calm under pressure, he excels in Agile startup environments while bringing studio-scale rigor. Based in Emeryville, he pairs a BA in Computer Science and Music with a hands-on mentality: he writes SOLID, testable code and enjoys solving tricky edge cases others shy away from.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Music, Magna Cum Laude, BA, Computer Science, Music, Magna Cum Laude at Middlebury College
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Github Skills (4)
time-line10
python10
video-editing10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
Open Source API and interchange format for editorial timeline information.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 11 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the CMX_3600 and FCP_XML adapters for the OpenTimelineIO project. Their work focused on improving the adapters' ability to correctly parse and write EDL files, including handling edge cases like dissolves and frame-based timecodes. They implemented features for reading generator references for black and bars events, and fixed bugs related to transition lengths and fade-to-black scenarios. Additional work included support for Nucoda style EDLs and other testing improvements.
apivfxanimationinterchange-formattimeline
mikemahony/git-commit-scroller
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1678 pushes in 4 months
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