Derek Kruk
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Kruk is a creative technologist and Co-Founder/Creative Director with 14 years of experience turning physical products into photorealistic, interactive digital experiences for challenger brands, tech innovators, and CPG leaders. He leads end-to-end 3D pipelines—spanning CAD optimization, Houdini/Cinema 4D look-development, Unreal/WebGL integration, and cinematic lighting—to deliver premium product launches and interactive web moments. Derek has scaled teams and pipelines across North America and Europe, built AWS Deadline–integrated workflows, and mentored artists to raise studio-level quality and speed. Equally comfortable in pitchrooms with CMOs as he is debugging shaders, he treats a brand’s digital presence with the same obsessive engineering as the physical product. A physics-minded programmer and sci‑fi fan, he brings a rigorous, experimental approach to procedural FX and creative coding that makes campaigns genuinely unforgettable.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science in Communication, Film/Video Post Production, Bachelors of Science in Communication, Film/Video Post Production at Ohio UniversityDesign Bootcamp, Design Bootcamp at School of Motion
Github Skills (43)
tracer9
pods8
chroot8
rkt8
seccomp7
ray7
golang6
api6
computer-graphics6
physics-engine6
docker6
linux6
computational-physics6
animation6
rust5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Erdk/Erdk.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Erdk/introtoprofiling
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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