Summary
Madison Aster is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience who blends deep VFX and pipeline engineering expertise with hands-on production and sales roles. Based in Long Beach, CA, she has led pipeline and DevOps initiatives across film, VR, and advertising—modernizing legacy Python codebases, building CI/CD pipelines, and delivering real-time and Unreal-based systems for studios like THE THIRD FLOOR, Naughty Dog, and Saatchi & Saatchi. Comfortable shipping cross-disciplinary tooling (Python, C++, Qt, Unreal) and building render/automation systems, she also brings practical ops and customer-facing experience from roles in retail and hospitality that sharpen communication and product empathy. Known for refactoring large legacy systems, authoring extensive documentation, and creating bespoke pipeline tools, she thrives in ambiguous environments where creative and technical constraints intersect. Her recent pivot into consumer sales as a Sleep Expert underscores a pragmatic, user-centered mindset and an appetite for continual learning.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Digital Video Effects, Bachelor's degree, Digital Video Effects at Collins College