Chad Dombrova
Director, Production Engineering at Eyeline
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Dombrova is a Director of Production Engineering with 18 years of experience leading large VFX and virtual production engineering teams and building next-generation pipelines at scale. He combines deep hands-on engineering—authoring and contributing to tools like PyMEL, Rez, the Arnold MtoA translator, and OpenUSD—with proven leadership running teams of 40–70 developers across VFX, stage, and generative workflows. Chad has a strong backend and tooling pedigree demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as mypy, Apache Beam, and Python typeshed, bringing static-typing and robust CI practices into production pipelines. He’s known for spotting and rapidly adopting disruptive technologies, having driven cloud-first studio rollouts, USD adoption for Unreal, and microservice-based orchestration. Based in Santa Monica, he blends production-facing empathy with systems-level design to deliver incremental rewrites that minimize risk while enabling long-term generative-AI capabilities. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate artist needs into durable engineering standards and automated workflows that scale across international studios.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of Virginia
Github Skills (54)
git10
static-typing10
typesc10
libgit210
type-check10
svn10
pytest10
python10
stub10
stubs10
mypy10
dynamic-typing10
typescript10
data-serialization10
implicit-typing10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez
Jun 2013 - May 2014
An integrated package configuration, build and deployment system for software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 263 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chad refactored the existing rez-release module, converting the codebase into a class-based structure to support different version control systems. This involved creating an abstract base class (RezReleaseMode) and implementing a concrete class (SvnRezReleaseMode) to handle Subversion. The user also added a basic command executor class to streamline operation and added support for reading python files. These changes aimed to improve maintainability and add flexibility to support various build and deployment workflows.
configurationintegratedresolved-environmentsenvironment-configurationrez
apache/beam
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 90 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chad's contributions centered on enhancing the Apache Beam Java SDK's JobService functionality. They implemented features enabling the querying of pipeline definitions via gRPC and added support for retrieving and listing jobs in the Java InMemoryJobService and the Python LocalJobServicer. Code changes included modifying existing classes and proto files to support the new API functionality. They also fixed exception handling and improved Python code style.
golangpythonstreaming-databeambatch
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