Jonathan Gerber
Sr Digital Pipeline Engineering Manager at LAIKA, LLC
West Linn, Oregon, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJonathan Gerber is a senior digital pipeline engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and directing pipeline, tools, and TD teams across major VFX studios including LAIKA and Digital Domain. He combines hands-on technical direction with strategic leadership—overseeing architecture, budgeting, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver film and commercial visual effects at scale. His background as a TD and FX artist (credits on projects from Transformers to Aeon Flux) gives him pragmatic empathy for artists while he drives robust, production-grade tooling. Jonathan is comfortable operating across studios and locations, having managed global teams and coordinated with systems and R&D leaders to future-proof pipelines. Based in West Linn, Oregon with a BS in Biochemistry and Film from UC San Diego, he brings an unusual mix of scientific rigor and creative production experience. Off-hours pragmatism shows in his github quip—"Writing software to stay out of debtors' prison"—hinting at a practical, no-nonsense approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (194)
declarative10
javascript10
compiler10
rust10
binding10
frontend10
react10
rust-lang9
webview9
ffi9
rust-language9
user-interface9
standard-library9
css9
chrome9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jlgerber/rust-render
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 releases, 139 pushes, 26 branches in 1 month
jlgerber/py_service_locator
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 20 pushes in 3 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.