Brendan Abel
Senior Software Engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering
Mount Prospect, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Abel is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and integrating production pipelines for film, VFX, and game studios, currently at Walt Disney Imagineering. He specializes in digital asset management and pipeline design, bridging artists, departments, third-party vendors, and tools like Shotgun and motion capture systems. A pragmatic polyglot, he leans on Python, PyQt, and databases for pipeline automation while also applying C++, C#, JavaScript/Node, and modern front-end frameworks when full-stack solutions are needed. His background as a Motion Capture Technical Director and Systems Engineer gives him rare operational insight into capture hardware and on-set workflows that inform more robust studio tooling. Brendan combines a formal engineering foundation (B.S. Industrial Engineering) with hands-on production experience at studios such as Blur Studio, A52, and Saatchi & Saatchi, enabling him to translate complex creative requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Industrial Engineering, B.S., Industrial Engineering at West Virginia University
English
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Github Skills (87)
package-management10
python10
pyside10
build-configuration10
harvest10
dependency-manager10
pyqt10
pypi10
packaging10
shotgun10
sqlalchemy10
qt9
robotics9
package-repository9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bpabel/rez
Jan 2017 - Jul 2022
An integrated package configuration, build and deployment system for software
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 55 branches in 5 years 6 months
continuous-deploymentconfigurationintegratedbuild-configurationdeployment
bpabel/html5charref
Sep 2014 - Apr 2020
Python library for escaping/unescaping HTML5 Named Character References
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 years 7 months
python
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