Summary
David Stokes is a software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in workflow automation, production pipeline design, and tools development across Python, C/C++, and MAXScript. Based in Somerville, MA, he has bridged art and engineering for game and media studios and later applied that expertise to scientific and industrial software at companies like Addgene and Mide Technology. He combines hands-on scripting and UI/HCI design with 3D modeling and animation skills, enabling smoother collaboration between artists and developers and faster production cycles. An instructor and maker community contributor, he brings practical teaching experience from Artisan's Asylum that informs his clear, usability-focused tooling. Notably, his career arc moves from QA and production art into senior technical art and engineering roles, giving him a rare end-to-end view of content pipelines and product quality.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Hampshire College