Francesco Siddi
CEO at Blender
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Siddi is a producer and product leader with 15 years of experience shaping Blender’s film projects, pipelines and open-source production tools from Amsterdam. Currently CEO of Blender and a long-time producer and Pipeline TD, he blends industrial design training and hands-on 3D artistry to deliver end-to-end animated film production, tooling and fundraising. He has driven pipeline, asset and render management systems whose code is openly available on developer.blender.org and GitHub, and he balances strategic roles (former COO, board member) with day-to-day production management. Notably, his background in physical interaction design and advanced character animation gives him a rare mix of user-centered product thinking and animation craft.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Phisical interaction design 3D computer graphics Visual communication, BA Phisical interaction design 3D computer graphics Visual communication at Istanbul Bilgi UniversityBA Industrial Design, BA Industrial Design at Free University of Bozen-BolzanoCertificate Andvanced character animation studies, Certificate Andvanced character animation studies at Animation Mentor
Italian, German, English
Github Skills (126)
render10
computer-graphics10
3d10
rendering-3d-graphics10
web-platform10
animation10
rendering10
path-tracing10
crowd10
golang10
compositing10
cicd10
gitlab10
vue10
forum10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/flamenco-manager-azure
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Provides integration of Flamenco Render Farm Manager with Azure Batch
Contributions:13 releases, 34 commits, 21 pushes in 4 years
renderazure-batchbatchfarmazure
blender/mediawiki-bootstrap
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
Minimal Mediawiki skin with Bootstrap 4
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 45 pushes in 1 year
bootstrapbootstrap-4mediawiki-skinmediawikib3d
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