Jared Counts
Senior Software Engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJared Counts is a senior software engineer based in Boston with 11 years of experience building production tools and simulations for animation, film, and fabrication. He has deep expertise in C++, Python, Qt, USD, and animation systems, having contributed to Pixar’s Presto editor and led core improvements that boosted performance and animator expressivity. His work spans simulation technical direction on major films, research-driven fabrication and knitting projects at MIT, and practical UI/UX prototyping that bridges artist workflows and developer tools. Jared blends research rigor—topological modeling and resting-shape prediction for knitted structures—with production engineering, delivering embedded scripting editors and solver-preserving pose systems. He’s comfortable optimizing low-level performance (10–40% speedups on key subsystems) while also designing delightful interfaces informed by animator feedback. That mix of film-grade production experience and academic research gives him a rare ability to turn complex physical and creative problems into reliable, user-focused software.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Fort Zumwalt South High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (3)
hci6
react4
javascript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JaredCounts/AnimMorph
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
JaredCounts/OpenFold
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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