Mike Boers
Founder Developer at mikeboers.com
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMike Boers is a multidisciplinary founder and developer with 17 years of experience building VFX pipelines, rendering tools, and production systems while also running web and hosting services. He bridges art and engineering—from matte painting and lighting to shader development, pipeline automation, and systems administration—favoring automation, efficiency, and storytelling. As founder of Immersion Room and VFX Etc. he leads virtual production and VFX software efforts, shipping filmmaking-first real-time engines and plugins used in production. His background in film, physics, and graphics research gives him a rare fluency in both low-level rendering algorithms and practical studio operations. Comfortable as a hands-on engineer or consultant, he’s currently exploring ML/AI applications in creative pipelines and is open to part-time, freelance, or consulting work.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Film Production, Physics, Mathematics, BFA, Film Production, Physics, Mathematics at York University
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Github Skills (43)
python10
pyav10
ffmpeg10
haml10
flask-application10
access-control-list10
cross-compiling10
caching-proxy10
ruby9
decorator9
sqlite-database9
unicode9
libtomcrypt9
flask9
macos9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikeboers/PyTomCrypt
Jan 2010 - May 2014
Python wrapper around LibTomCrypt
Contributions:415 commits in 4 years 5 months
libtomcryptpython
vfxetc/sgschema
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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