Ethan Howell
Software Engineer at Meta
Vineyard, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Howell is a software engineer and 3D technical artist with nine years of experience building full-stack tools and developer-facing applications, currently at Meta. He brings a strong Python background and practical UX sense from contributing to Pixar’s OpenUSD usdview—improving UI, file handling, and playback interpolation—alongside production internships at Pixar and Facebook. Ethan has led web and search integrations in Django-powered academic systems and helped scale ML pipelines that cut real-time load dramatically during his Facebook internship. Based in Vineyard, Utah, he balances technical craft with creative pursuits like photography and skiing, which inform his attention to visual detail in 3D and tooling work. Mild-mannered in public, he steadily ships personal projects on GitHub that reflect a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 4.0, High School, 4.0 at Smithson Valley High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Brigham Young University
Spanish, Malagasy, English
Github Skills (9)
qt10
python10
usd10
user-interface9
c-language8
file-handling8
cprogramming-language8
multithreading7
3d-graphics6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Universal Scene Description
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the `usdview` application within the Universal Scene Description (USD) framework. Their work involved modifications to the UI and backend functionality, including improvements to the Python interpreter, file handling with locking mechanisms, and frame interpolation logic. They also addressed camera settings and view controls, and made changes to the prim view and guide visibility features, indicating involvement across multiple aspects of the application.
universal-scene-descriptionscene
ethanhowell/SpaceWar2016
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:86 commits, 5 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 month
gameodyssey
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