James Davies
Lead Full Stack Engineer at Douugh
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Davies is a Lead Full Stack Engineer based in Sydney with 13 years of professional experience and a 15-year background spanning VFX and video game development on titles like Deus Ex Director's Cut, L.A. Noire and Marvel Super Hero Squad. He combines hands-on pipeline and tool development expertise with full-stack leadership at Douugh, bringing deep scripting skills across Python, Maxscript, Mel, C# and JavaScript and shader/Cg work from his technical artist roots. Comfortable across engines and production environments, he has built automated animation tools, Unity mobile apps, and integrated artist-facing pipelines that bridge creative and engineering teams. Known for solving tricky R&D problems, he favors pragmatic automation that speeds iteration for artists and developers alike.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV, Computer Animation & Digital Effects, Certificate IV, Computer Animation & Digital Effects at TAFE NSWThe University of SydneyHSC, HSC at Barker College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (30)
panda3d10
sublime-text10
openmv10
livecode10
pycharm10
firmware9
micropython9
emacs9
live-coding9
python8
scipy8
numpy7
pyglet7
scientific-visualization6
docker-toolbox6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Derfies/reactor
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:32 PRs, 295 pushes, 41 branches in 1 year 5 months
Derfies/qtextras
Apr 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 21 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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