Nick Shaw
Member Of The ACES Technical Steering Committee at Academy Software Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Shaw is a seasoned digital cinema workflow specialist with over 11 years of experience guiding set-to-post pipelines and standards for high-end camera systems. As a current member of the ACES Technical Steering Committee at the Academy Software Foundation, he helps set the technical direction for industry-wide color management and interoperability. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing backend code and unit-tested Y'CbCr transforms to the widely used colour-science/colour Python project—with practical workflow consulting at scale. Based in London, he has a long history across editorial, VFX and technical leadership roles dating back to the 1990s, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from capture through finishing. Known for pragmatic, standards-focused solutions, he pairs electronic engineering training with real-world pipeline optimization to reduce risk and preserve creative intent.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Electronic Engineering, BEng, Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton
Github Skills (3)
numpy10
python10
colors10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
colour-science/colour
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
Colour Science for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 112 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to implementing Y'CbCr colour encoding transforms within the "colour-science/colour" repository. Their work involved writing functions for conversions to and from Y'CbCr, including a special case for Rec.2020, and integrating these functions into the existing RGB model structure. They also added unit tests to validate the functionality of the newly implemented Y'CbCr conversion functions, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and correctness.
colourspacesdatapythoncolour-spacescolor-space
nick-shaw/colour
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
Colour Science for Python
Contributions:11 commits, 142 pushes, 27 branches in 5 years
pythonsciencecolour-sciencecolour
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