Summary
Eimear Crotty is a Technical Director with a decade of experience bridging large-scale site reliability engineering and visual effects, currently leading technical efforts at Walt Disney Animation Studios. She began her career as a Google SRE—rising to manager—and holds a first-class BSc in Computer Science plus an MSc with Distinction in Computer Animation and Visual Effects, blending systems engineering with graphics expertise. Eimear splits her time between reliability work and graphics programming (notably owning a 20% project at Google), bringing production-grade infrastructure practices to animation pipelines. Her background includes research collaboration at MIT and early product experience at Teamwork, reflecting a habit of pairing academic rigor with hands-on delivery. Based in Cork, she combines leadership in distributed systems with a practical love of 3D modelling and rendering, often translating low-level performance insights into creative tooling improvements.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University College Cork
Level 6 Diploma in Music Performance, Level 6 Diploma in Music Performance at Trinity College London
Master of Science - MSc Computer Animation and Visual Effects, Master of Science - MSc Computer Animation and Visual Effects at Bournemouth University
Scoil Mhuire, Wellington Rd, Cork