Michael Thingnes
Senior Software Engineer (iOS) at ANZ
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Thingnes is a Senior iOS Engineer with eight years of software and VFX-pipeline experience, now building native iOS solutions at ANZ after a broad engineering stint at Weta Digital and Unity. He combines deep expertise in Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, AppKit and Qt with a background in Python and tooling for complex production pipelines, having led migrations like Qt4→Qt5 and Nuke upgrades. Comfortable across application and pipeline development, he brings a pragmatic, creative problem-solving style honed on high-profile film projects and large-scale team workflows. His open-source work includes modernizing a NodeGraph Qt framework for Python 3 and PySide2, demonstrating attention to cross-platform UI compatibility and file/session robustness. Colleagues rely on him as a collaborative team player who quickly learns new stacks and translates creative requirements into reliable engineering.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Digital Visual Effects, BA, Digital Visual Effects at University of TeessideNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (2)
pyside10
python10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jchanvfx/NodeGraphQt
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Node graph framework that can be re-implemented into applications that supports PySide2
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on porting the existing codebase to be compatible with Python 3 and the PySide2 library, indicating a focus on modernizing the project. They updated the UI elements, specifically the node viewer and its associated actions, to work with PySide2 and ensured Python 3 compatibility. The user also implemented necessary changes for file handling, session loading, and saving functionalities within the node graph framework.
nodegraph-qtpyside-nodegraphnode-graphpythonpyside2
thimic/twicorder
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:129 commits, 6 PRs, 115 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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