Summary
Manuel Rais is a seasoned CTO and DevOps leader based in Arles with over a decade of experience bridging VFX production and pipeline engineering. He combines deep compositing and 3D expertise (Blender, Maya, Arnold, Nuke, After Effects) with hands-on pipeline TD work, on-set supervision, and production-grade scripting in Python, shell and C++. At TNZPV he progressed from R&D and pipeline roles to CTO, shaping tooling and infrastructure for stereo and mono workflows while championing open-source solutions. His background as a supervisor and lead compositor across major studios gives him a rare end-to-end perspective from on-set capture to final composite. Collected engineering and artistic skills let him translate creative constraints into robust, automatable pipelines that scale for studio delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Maitrîse de Sciences et Techniques Audiovisuel, Maitrîse de Sciences et Techniques Audiovisuel at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at Université d'Amiens