Kathryn Long
Senior Technical Artist at Thought Pennies
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKathryn Long is a Senior Technical Artist with over a decade of experience crafting production pipelines, shaders, and artist tools for AAA games. She has shipped major titles at Bioware and Ubisoft Toronto—contributing to Star Wars: The Old Republic, Watch Dogs: Legion, and Far Cry 6 DLC—and now leads technical art at Thought Pennies from Old Toronto. Kathryn combines deep shader research and optimization skills with hands-on pipeline migrations and tool development, helping teams scale content workflows across engines. Early work in animated film and an indie browser MMO speaks to a rare blend of cinematic sensibility and systems-level engineering that informs her pragmatic, artist-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science, Animation Emphasis, B.S., Computer Science, Animation Emphasis at Brigham Young University
English, German
Github Skills (95)
utf10
converting10
encoding10
floating10
floating-point10
command-line-parser10
interval-arithmetic10
wchar10
rust10
rfc10
strings10
feature-detection10
argument-parsing10
unicode10
simd10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VoidStarKat/half-rs
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Half-precision floating point types f16 and bf16 for Rust.
Contributions:29 releases, 9 reviews, 234 commits in 7 years
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starkat99/appveyor-rust
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
rustappveyorlinuxwindows
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