Alan Cheney
Senior Software Developer at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Cheney is a senior software developer with 14 years of professional experience blending computer science, graphics, and film production tools, currently building software at NVIDIA from his base in California. He has a track record of leading pipeline and production engineering teams at DreamWorks and Disneytoon, architecting scalable studio pipelines, custom RV plugins, and Deadline render-farm improvements that shipped on major feature films. As a founder of Watchkin.com and owner of a graphic-design startup, he combines product-minded entrepreneurship with hands-on engineering across C++, Python, Qt/PyQt, web stacks and SQL. Alan’s work ranges from low-level performance optimizations—like a high-throughput PAR particle format and Houdini plugins—to user-facing review and editorial tools that improve creative workflows. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a BA in Design, a combination that fuels his knack for turning visual ideas into robust technical systems. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also composes orchestral sketches and has maintained small consumer-facing projects, showing both artistic sensibility and full-stack craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Italian
Github Skills (34)
vulkan10
glsl10
cuda10
hlsl10
derived9
nano9
tegra9
bsp8
amdgpu7
nexus7
nvidia7
kernel7
jetson7
shader7
linux-kernel6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cheneym2/slang
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Making it easier to work with shaders
Contributions:28 PRs, 434 pushes, 84 branches in 11 months
cheneym2/shader-slang.github.io
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Slang project web site
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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