Mei Chu
Software Engineer at Sony Pictures Imageworks
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMei Chu is a software engineer with 8 years of experience blending VFX production and pipeline engineering, currently building compositing and deployment tooling at Sony Pictures Imageworks in Burnaby. She codes in Python and C++, leads Python 2-to-3 migrations, and has implemented CI/CD-friendly deployment and test frameworks to modernize proprietary VFX tools. Mei has deep hands-on compositing roots—from ILM and Digital Domain credits to senior roto/compositor roles—which give her practical insight into artist workflows and cross-department collaboration. She contributes to OpenColorIO as a QA/test automation engineer, expanding Python unit tests for a widely used open-source color management framework. Known for introducing a mini-agile workflow and driving test-driven design in production teams, she excels at turning legacy systems into robust, production-ready pipelines. Bilingual with Canadian and Taiwanese citizenship, Mei pairs creative pipeline empathy with disciplined software engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BMOS, Finance, BMOS, Finance at Western UniversityHonour Diploma, Visual Effects, Honour Diploma, Visual Effects at Vancouver Film School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
unit-testing10
python10
test-automation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
A color management framework for visual effects and animation.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 6 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Mei primarily contributed to the project by updating and expanding the Python unit tests. Their work focused on creating and modifying test modules, including `CDLTransformTest`, `LookTest`, `TransformsBaseTest`, `ExposureContrastTransformTest`, `DisplayViewTransformTest`, `Lut1DTransformTest`, `Lut3DTransformTest`, and `ConfigTest`. These updates involved refining test methods, adding new test cases, and ensuring the correct functionality of various transforms within the OpenColorIO framework.
post-processinganimationvisual-effectscolor-managementlighting
meimchu/OpenColorIO
Feb 2020 - Mar 2024
A color management framework for visual effects and animation.
Contributions:82 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 2 months
animationvisual-effectscolor-managementlightingbrightness
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