Andrew Bauer
Senior Software Engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Bauer is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in graphics and physically-based rendering, currently building production tools at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He brings deep research roots from UCSD—having worked with Ravi Ramamoorthi and Henrik Wann Jensen—and practical studio experience implementing Monte Carlo path tracing and hybrid real-time renderers. Andrew has a strong track record contributing to major open-source graphics infrastructure like Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (Usdview/Hydra), where he re-architected data models and resolved performance bottlenecks. His background spans low-level systems work (Windows kernel prototyping) to production animation pipelines, giving him a rare mix of research rigor and production-focused engineering. Based in San Diego, he’s known for translating complex rendering algorithms into robust, artist-facing tools that scale in studio environments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (5)
data-modeling10
python10
usd10
qt9
compiler5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Universal Scene Description
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Usdview project by implementing and refactoring core features. Their work focused on the stage data model and the selection data model, which involved significant changes to the application's architecture and data management. They also addressed performance issues related to Hydra shutdown and stage closing, suggesting optimization efforts. The user implemented and refined several data models to manage different aspects of the USD data representation.
universal-scene-descriptionscene
abau171/cubetree
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 58 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 2 months
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