Andrew Melnychuk
Founder at SAAGA Solve
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Melnychuk is a founder and technical artist turned founder in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years of formal experience and a deep background in visual effects at studios like Blizzard, Epic Games, Blur, and Bioware. He blends creative storytelling and production-grade tooling—helping Fortnite move from Cascade to Niagara and building Houdini/Nuke/Redshift pipelines—with growing hands-on expertise in C++, linear algebra, and deep learning. Currently leading SAAGA Solve and angel investing at Taelor, he focuses on ambitious, tech-driven projects such as a personal deep-learning–accelerated fluid solver. Intrinsically motivated and ENTJ-A by temperament, he treats work as a growth challenge and actively solicits feedback to accelerate skill development. Comfortable both shipping cinematic FX and diving into math lectures and programming, he’s happiest collaborating on hard problems that bridge art, physics, and computation.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor's degree Bachelor of Fine Arts at The University of Lethbridge
Github Skills (49)
lightning10
bitcoind10
staging10
wallet10
docker10
electron10
lightning-network10
testing10
bitcoin10
polar10
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
c-lightning10
cryptography10
react10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amovfx/lifeguide
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 315 pushes, 61 branches in 7 months
amovfx/polar
Nov 2022 - Sep 2023
One-click Bitcoin Lightning networks for local app development & testing
Contributions:2 PRs, 197 pushes, 34 branches in 10 months
one-clickbitcoindtestinglightningwallet
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