Isaac Gierard
Principal at Gierard Design and Technology LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIsaac Gierard is a Principal technologist and creative engineer with 16 years building immersive audio-visual experiences and production tools from San Francisco. He blends C++, Web, and real-time graphics expertise with hands-on work in video playback, VFX pipelines, and interactive installations for clients ranging from sports arenas to museums. Isaac leads small cross-disciplinary teams, applying game engines, OpenGL/OpenCV, depth sensing, and AR/VR to translate creative briefs into robust technical systems. He also contributes to open-source projects—improving front-end pjax navigation and hardening networking in the openFrameworks toolkit—demonstrating attention to testability and platform-specific edge cases. Known for marrying technical rigor with aesthetic intent, he especially excels at solving tricky multi-monitor, high-resolution, and connection-reliability problems that are easy to overlook.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Art Institute of Pittsburgh
English
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Github Skills (16)
windows10
javascript10
c-language10
pjax10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
testing10
unit-testing9
jquery7
opengl7
creative-cloud6
graphic5
android5
ios5
audio5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MoOx/pjax
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Easily enable fast Ajax navigation on any website (using pushState + xhr)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Isaac focused on enhancing the `pjax` library, primarily by modifying its option parsing and initialization logic. Key contributions include restructuring the options parsing process into a separate, testable module and improving the handling of the `scrollTo` option. The user also implemented unit tests to validate option configurations, ensuring the library's behavior remained consistent. Furthermore, they addressed issues in unique ID generation and improved the library's overall structure.
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openframeworks/openFrameworks
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Isaac focused on improving the network functionality of the openFrameworks project. Their work involved addressing Windows-specific issues related to connection handling, specifically preventing errors caused by aborted connections. They also fixed a bug related to receive timeout and implemented refactoring to improve network disconnection detection. Additionally, the user's commits touched on multi-monitor fullscreen display behavior.
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