Guillaume Laforge
Software Development Manager at Autodesk
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillaume Laforge is a software development manager and former head of R&D with 11+ years building high-performance tools for the VFX and DCC ecosystem, currently leading engineering at Autodesk from Montreal. He combines deep C++ expertise (Boost, Qt, TBB, OpenGL) and pipeline-level Python integrations with hands-on experience across Houdini, Maya, Katana and Nuke, and renderer APIs like Arnold and PRMan. His career blends production-side VFX work on major films with platform development—authoring custom plugins and USD tooling such as Walter and Harold to streamline cloud rendering and cross-DCC workflows. Known for driving both architecturally ambitious refactors and practical artist-facing features, he consistently focuses on performance and scalability in complex scene and asset pipelines. An architect by training, he brings a designer’s eye to engineering problems, turning research prototypes into production-ready tools used by hundreds of artists.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DPLG (5 years), Architecture, DPLG (5 years), Architecture at Ecole d'Architecture de Toulouse
English, French
Github Skills (34)
katana10
usd10
scene10
houdini10
nodes10
hydra9
sdf9
rendering-3d-graphics9
maya9
pocketmine8
grav-plugin8
shotgun8
materialx8
rendering8
paths8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Autodesk/bifrost-usd
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
Bifrost nodes for USD
Contributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 10 commits in 2 years 2 months
usdnodesbifrost
frenchdog/USD
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Universal Scene Description
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
universal-scene-descriptionscene
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