Jonah Newton
Pipeline Technical Director at Kestro
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJonah Newton is a Pipeline Technical Director with 8 years’ experience building and supporting production pipelines for animation and visual effects, currently leading pipeline development at Flying Bark Productions. He previously led TD teams and taught at UTS Animal Logic Academy, designing tools and integrations across Maya, Katana, Houdini, Nuke, USD, ShotGrid/Flow, Rez, CMake and RenderMan to streamline show and student workflows. A practical full-stack developer and founder of music platform Kestro, Jonah blends engineering leadership with product-minded entrepreneurship and has shipped bespoke artist- and production-facing applications. Outside of studios he’s an experienced electronic music producer (Equator) with international label releases, a detail that surfaces his creative-technical fluency and knack for connecting creators with audiences.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Mosman High SchoolBachelor of Entrepreneurship (Honours), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Bachelor of Entrepreneurship (Honours), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (20)
scene10
shotgun9
x-plane9
blender9
playback8
nuke8
animation7
media7
renderman7
usd6
plugin6
logic5
autodesk5
maya5
3d5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jonahjnewton/JonahNewtonWebsite
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:143 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
jonahjnewton/airdrop2holders
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 62 commits, 53 pushes in 9 months
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