Luiz Moreira
Lead Software Engineer at Wētā FX
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolLuiz Moreira is a Lead Software Engineer based in Wellington with nearly a decade of experience designing and shipping production pipeline software for VFX and interactive media. He excels at building scalable, flexible architectures and APIs across frontend, backend, and DCC integrations using Python, C++, JavaScript and a broad toolchain from Git and CMake to Qt and Elastic. His career spans senior engineering roles at Wētā FX, Weta Digital and Unity, where he focused on database migrations, test-driven development, and performant pipeline tooling for complex studios. Certified as an Elasticsearch Developer, he brings deep experience with MySQL/Postgres/Elastic and cross-platform deployment on Linux, macOS and Windows. Notably, his background marries formal systems engineering training with a computer animation degree, enabling him to bridge low-level performance engineering with artist-facing UI and pipeline needs.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Animation, Bachelor's degree Computer Animation at Full Sail UniversityBachelor's degree Computer and Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
French, Italian, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (3)
multi-index6
multiplication5
maya4
Github contributions (3)
luizmoreiratd/new-tab-redirect
Jun 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 6 branches, 1 issue in 7 months
luizmoreiratd/luizmoreiratd.github.io
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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