Girijashankar Senapati
Senior Pipeline Developer at Atomic Arts India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolGirijashankar Senapati is a Senior Pipeline Developer with 9 years of VFX experience, blending lighting, lookdev, texturing and render optimization into robust production pipelines. He began as a generalist and progressed through sequence lighting roles into technical direction, building tools and plugins for Maya, Houdini and ShotGrid to automate workflows and reduce render costs. Known for troubleshooting complex 3D application issues, he partners with cloud and render teams to improve efficiency and capacity planning across sites. His work history spans studios like Technicolor, Anibrain and Atomic Arts India, where he led pipeline projects, documentation and artist support. Outside production, he iterates on personal tooling and shares work on GitHub and Vimeo, reflecting a continuous drive to learn and prototype solutions. He combines artist-first sensibilities with practical engineering, often surfacing non-obvious optimizations that materially cut render time and pipeline friction.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Education, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects, A, Diploma of Education, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects, A at University of Cambridge1st Division, Secondary Education, 1st Division, 1st Division, Secondary Education, 1st Division at Board of Secondary Education, Orissa1st Class, Science, A, 1st Class, Science, A at Central Board of Secondary Education
Hindi, English
Github Skills (20)
scene10
openframeworks9
sparse8
voxel8
volume-rendering8
data-structure7
openvdb6
usd4
maya4
plugin4
pipeline3
autodesk2
render1
rasterizer1
visualization1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gshankar165/Shader_Transfer_Tool
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 1 month
gshankar165/Maya-Python
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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