Charles Pina
Principal Scientist, Engineering Lead at Adobe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Pina is a Principal Scientist and engineering lead in San Francisco with 12+ years building graphics-driven products and shipping three 1.0 Adobe releases (Fuse, Dimension, and Substance 3D Stager). He blends deep graphics and VFX expertise—shading, lighting, compositing automation—with full‑stack web and tooling experience from Mixamo’s single‑page rewrite to NVIDIA chip verification tools. Known for bridging creative and engineering teams, he’s led front-end, pipeline, and product launches across startups and studios, with feature film compositing credits and a Y Combinator‑backed startup stint. Comfortable in C#/C++/Python and web stacks, he focuses on procedural content workflows and scalable authoring tools that accelerate creative pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Effects, Visual Effects at Academy of Art UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (28)
grunt-task6
glslify6
graphic6
rendering6
frontend5
dockerhub5
computer-graphics4
rendering-engine4
react4
graphics-programming3
hash3
webgl3
nodejs3
webpack2
nodeos2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
charlespina/webgl-shaders
Jun 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year
charlespina/glaboratory
May 2015 - Sep 2018
A WebGL playground, with a react-based front-end.
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 years 5 months
frontendreactwebgl
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