Mark Reid
Production Technology Imaging - Technical Director at Netflix Animation Studios
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMark Reid is a Production Technology Imaging Technical Director with 15 years blending visual effects craft and software development, currently on the imaging team at Netflix Animation after a recent role at Animal Logic. He brings deep compositing and pipeline leadership from feature and episodic VFX work (Method Studios, Keystone, SPIN West) alongside hands-on coding—contributing full-stack improvements to OpenTimelineIO and advanced codec handling in PyAV. That mix lets him bridge artist needs and engineering constraints, shipping robust tooling that reduces artist errors and handles tricky media formats like delayed codecs and variable-resolution streams. Based in Vancouver, he’s equally comfortable supervising on-set pipeline integration as he is refactoring demuxers or adding unit tests to open-source projects. An approachable tech leader, he often surfaces small but impactful fixes (typo and file-handle corrections) that keep large projects stable in production.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
python10
ffmpeg10
decoding10
codec10
video-codec10
file-management9
mux9
encoding9
encode9
cmake8
build-system8
plugin-development8
c-language7
cprogramming-language7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PyAV-Org/PyAV
Jul 2013 - Apr 2017
Pythonic bindings for FFmpeg's libraries.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the pyav library by implementing and refining video and audio codec handling. They fixed bugs related to codecs that change resolution, and exposed additional libavcodec functionalities. The user refactored and enhanced the demuxing and decoding processes, especially for handling codecs with delay capabilities. They also added encoding support and improved the example code to utilize the new features.
ffmpegpyavpythonpythonic
AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Open Source API and interchange format for editorial timeline information.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to multiple areas of the project, demonstrating full-stack capabilities. Their work included implementing UI improvements, preventing potential errors in core functionalities, adding unit tests, and managing file handles. They also contributed to plugin detection and build support. Furthermore, they resolved inconsistencies and typos across multiple source files.
apivfxanimationinterchange-formattimeline
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