Dan Bailey
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Bailey is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of VFX-focused engineering experience, currently leading ILM’s FX/Crowds Engineering team and serving as Product Owner for the Software Management group in Vancouver. He combines deep C++ systems expertise with production-scale problem solving, having progressed through engineering roles at MPC, Double Negative, and ILM where he shaped core pipelines and performance-sensitive tooling. An active open-source maintainer on the widely used OpenVDB project, Dan sits on its Technical Steering Committee and earned a 2024 SciTech Academy Award for his contributions to sparse volume data structures and optimizations. He brings a pragmatic leadership style that balances hands-on code improvements, bug hardening, and product stewardship across complex, deadline-driven film productions. Trained with a first-class MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, he’s known for squeezing extra performance out of existing libraries while keeping teams aligned on long-term technical strategy.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class Master of Engineering, Computer Science, 1st Class Master of Engineering, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
optmization10
performance-optimization10
optimisation10
data-structure10
optimization10
3d-graphics9
performance-tuning9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dneg/openvdb_points_dev
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
OpenVDB Points Development Repository
Contributions:131 PRs, 357 pushes, 130 branches in 1 year 4 months
pointsopenvdb
danrbailey/openvdb_points_dev
Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:402 pushes, 101 branches in 2 years 3 months
pointsopenvdb
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