Adam Woodbury
Principal Software Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Woodbury is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades at Pixar, bringing 11+ years in senior leadership roles focused on scalable, maintainable C++ systems and production tooling for feature films. He’s led teams from core engine development to studio-wide release processes, marrying deep technical design (STL, boost, Python, Linux) with production-facing customer engagement and mentorship. Adam helped architect and ship Presto, Pixar’s second-generation toolset, and has a track record of evolving APIs and system architecture while keeping active productions stable. His open-source contributions to PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD show hands-on impact in foundational graphics libraries—improving Sdf/UsdGeom APIs, adding constexpr constructors, and refining vector math and attribute caching. Based in San Francisco, he combines academic rigor from Caltech and Columbia with practical patent-backed innovation in simulation and deformation. Colleagues describe him as a strategic technical leader who prefers durable, well-engineered solutions over quick fixes.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
api-design10
usd10
architecture9
architectures9
3d-graphics8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD
Apr 2018 - May 2022
Universal Scene Description
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the core codebase, focusing on the `Sdf` and `UsdGeom` modules of the USD library. They modified and exposed core functionalities related to the `SdfCopySpec` and purpose visibility APIs, enhancing the library's capabilities. Further contributions included making constructors `constexpr` and improving the code related to `Gf` vector calculations and refactoring the attribute cache.
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