Haroon Alam
Software Engineer - Hair, FX, Animation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHaroon Alam is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in computer graphics for hair, FX, and animation, currently building grooming plugins and ML-driven deformation tooling at Digital Domain for major film and TV productions. He blends artistic sensibility with rigorous engineering—authoring production Houdini nodes, Maya plugins, and cloud conversion pipelines across VFX, VR, and medical-imaging projects. His background spans real-time engines, AR/VR authoring tools, and a patent-pending dermatology measurement system, reflecting a rare mix of creative problem solving and applied research. Based in Vancouver, he collaborates closely with ML teams to turn research into pipeline-ready tools and has shipped technology on titles for Marvel and DC, demonstrating both studio-grade reliability and cross-disciplinary breadth.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu
Github Skills (35)
camera-api10
intel10
hardware10
payment-methods10
sdk10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
computer-vision10
ubuntu9
iterative9
closest9
lidar9
ros8
robotics8
embree7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
syedharoonalam/buildJetsonTX2Kernel
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
kerneljetsonnvidianvidia-jetson-tx2jetson-tx2
syedharoonalam/installLibrealsenseTX2
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 months
jetsonnvidialibrealsensenvidia-jetson-tx2jetson-tx2
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