Dan Wexler
Barista & Founder at More Space Battles
California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Wexler is an engineering leader and founder with 17 years of startup experience and a 35-year history of building high-performance graphics and media systems. He has led technical and commercial growth at companies he founded—raising venture funding, hiring teams, and selling to top-tier Media & Entertainment studios—while also shipping GPU-accelerated mobile and cloud tools for professional image management. A former senior engineer and manager at NVIDIA and render architect at PDI/DreamWorks, he combines deep renderer and parallel-compute expertise with product-minded full-stack development. He contributes to major open-source projects like OpenImageIO, focusing on platform compatibility and performance optimizations that reveal a low-level systems mindset. Based in California, he now runs More Space Battles, developing an AI-driven photo/video cloud manager that leverages cluster processing for large-scale media tagging and workflows. Collected across decades of R&D and entrepreneurship, his work shows a rare blend of cinematic rendering pedigree and practical cloud/mobile productization.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Statistics, Computer Science, BS, Statistics, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (24)
c-language10
multiplatform10
image-processing10
cross-platform10
gfx10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
cmake9
windows9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
c117
c177
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO
Apr 2009 - Jun 2013
Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:10 commits, 10 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the OpenImageIO library by addressing platform-specific compatibility issues and optimizing existing functionalities. Their work included integrating fixes for Windows builds, which involved modifying include paths and handling system-specific behaviors. They also focused on performance improvements and added new configuration options to the make_texture tool. The contributions demonstrate a deep understanding of the library's internals and optimization strategies.
apivfximageagnosticc-plus-plus
Zorroa/ZorroaSpecs
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:66 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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