Jake Kousholt
Senior Technical Director at Skydance Animation
Spain
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Top SchoolJake Kousholt is a Senior Technical Director and software engineer with eight years of professional experience and a deep background in VFX pipeline and full‑stack engineering. Currently at Skydance Animation, he blends production-proven tooling for Maya, Houdini and ShotGrid with modern web and cloud stacks (React, Python, PostgreSQL, GCP/AWS), having previously led pipeline efforts at major studios including ILM, DNEG and Framestore. He also teaches and creates curriculum—former instructor and adjunct professor—bringing pedagogy and mentorship into technical leadership. A recovering creature modeler with sculpture training, Jake uniquely pairs artistic craft with scalable engineering to accelerate production workflows. Outside of work he’s a long‑term volunteer with Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue and an avid DotA player, signaling both community commitment and a competitive, strategic mindset.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Graphics, Bachelor Computer Graphics at The Animation WorkshopSculpture, Sculpture at The Florence Academy of Art
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Github Skills (26)
low-level10
checker10
scene10
maya10
plugin9
docker-compose9
usd9
autodesk9
docker8
docker-image8
ios7
golang7
android7
orchestration6
go6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JakobJK/soloPipe
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
An small application for the freelance modeler
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 19 days
javamodeler
JakobJK/modelChecker
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Sanity checking tool for polygon models in Maya
Contributions:4 reviews, 64 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 6 months
model-checkerlow-levelmayachecker
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