Elijah Nicol
Software Engineer, Stage Workflows at Eyeline
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolElijah Nicol is a software engineer specializing in VFX pipeline and stage workflows, with eight years of experience building tools that bridge creative and technical teams. He has delivered production-scale systems at Luma Pictures—creating OpenUSD-based instancing, C++ Katana plugins for 50,000+ agent crowds, and a USD exporter for Unreal—while mentoring engineers in Python best practices and test-driven workflows. Comfortable across C++, Python, Qt, Katana, Nuke and Docker, he focuses on automating tedious artist tasks and optimizing memory and render performance. Based in Los Angeles and academically grounded with honors-level computer science studies at UNSW and earlier coursework at Melbourne and UC San Diego, he combines strong linear-algebra intuition with hands-on engineering. Outside work he still builds personal coding projects and brings a maker’s curiosity from childhood game and robot creations into high-end VFX tooling.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, San DiegoThe University of MelbourneUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (73)
python10
pbrt10
ifc10
gltf10
3d-models10
scene10
tracer10
volume-rendering10
data-structure10
collada10
android10
asset-pipeline10
fbx10
patreon10
assimp10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lijenicol/lijenicol.github.io
Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
Repo that hosts my personal website ✨
Contributions:6 PRs, 29 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
hostsnextjs
lijenicol/SPH-Fluid-Simulator
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
An interactive fluid simulation software that uses Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 7 months
particlefluidsimulationfluid-simulationfluid-dynamics
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