Danny Greenstein
Technical Director - Shading Pipeline at Sony Pictures Imageworks
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Greenstein is a seasoned technical director specializing in shading and character pipelines with eight years of focused experience at Sony Pictures Imageworks and a longer tenure in visual effects operations. Based in Los Angeles, he has progressed from production services and systems administration into leadership of the shading pipeline, blending deep infrastructure knowledge with artist-facing rendering workflows. His background includes hands-on data and I/O coordination at Digital Domain and systems administration at FIS, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on production pipelines from hardware to shading networks. Known for translating complex rendering requirements into robust, maintainable tools, he helps bridge the gap between artists and engineers to accelerate production. Danny holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University and brings a pragmatic, operations-first mindset to pipeline development and optimization.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
Github Skills (11)
texture10
api10
std10
matching10
image-processing10
image10
python9
cpp9
tac7
gitlab3
waf3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
imageworks/pystring
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
C++ functions matching the interface and behavior of python string methods with std::string
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 17 commits in 3 years 7 months
stdpythoncppstringmatching
grdanny/OpenImageIO
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:28 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
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