Haldean Brown
Character Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolHaldean Brown is a Character Technical Director and graphics-focused software engineer with 16 years of experience building geometry and rendering tools for film, live events, theater, and animation. Currently at Pixar after six years developing animation tools, he blends deep computational geometry expertise with practical pipeline and tooling work honed at Google, Plethora, Symmetry Labs, and SO(3) Group. He pairs R&D-grade problem solving with hands-on production experience, shipping solutions that serve both artists and engineering teams. Based in Oakland, he also pursues independent filmmaking, bringing a creator’s eye to technical design and an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective that informs his tooling and geometry research.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Antwerp International SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (176)
python10
cpp10
game-development10
game-engine10
django10
imgui10
openframeworks10
api10
docker10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
ecosystem9
sega-genesis9
commodore9
arcade9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
haldean/subd
May 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 9 months
haldean/sortastatic
May 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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