Mike Boers
Founder Developer at Immersion Room
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.
16 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 (72)
python10
flask-restful10
cross-compiling10
flask10
haml10
pythonic10
memoization10
pyav10
ffmpeg10
zeplin10
mako10
mustache10
shotgun10
linux9
ruby9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vfxetc/sgschema
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
mikeboers/aque
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:194 commits, 1 branch in 11 months
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