François Beaune
Director Of Rendering at Adobe
Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolFrançois Beaune is a rendering technology leader with over 15 years of engineering management experience and more than two decades of low-level C/C++ and x86 expertise, now directing Rendering at Adobe. He founded and continues to lead appleseed, a widely used open-source, physically based production renderer, and has a track record of shipping production GPU/CPU unified renderers, including a new engine shipped in Adobe Stager. François combines deep R&D—co-authoring a SIGGRAPH Asia paper on tessellation-free displacement—with large-scale software engineering, driving partnerships with Apple, AMD, Intel and NVIDIA. He builds and scales teams from prototype to production, routinely blending architecture, hands-on implementation and legal/partner negotiations. Fluent in English and French, he’s equally at home optimizing SIMD-heavy code as presenting technical strategy to cross-functional stakeholders. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained stewardship of Google Summer of Code and open-source governance, which has cultivated talent pipelines for his projects.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Theory of Computation Image Analysis & Synthesis Integrated Circuit Design, Master of Engineering Theory of Computation Image Analysis & Synthesis Integrated Circuit Design at Télécom Paris
French, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cmake8
build-system8
git8
computer-engineering7
vector6
boost-python6
stl6
qt6
boost6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
appleseedhq/appleseed
Jul 2010 - Mar 2021
A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects
Role in this project:
Back-end & Build Engineer
Back-end & Build EngineerContributions:30 releases, 13 reviews, 7268 commits in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:François primarily worked on expanding the rendering features of the project by implementing a basic render stamp feature. They also added support for displaying peak memory and fixed issues related to projects saved with AOV settings and incorrect camera behavior. Furthermore, they made various code tweaks, refactorings, and cleanups, including changes to the build script.
rendering-enginevfxanimationblendercpp
appleseedhq/appleseed-wiki
Jan 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:24 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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