Raphael Matto
Technical Direction Supervisor at Skydance Animation
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolRaphael Matto is a Technical Direction Supervisor based in Greater Boston with two decades of hands-on experience bridging production artistry and engineering across animation and VFX studios. He’s led pipeline and technical direction efforts at Skydance Animation and previously built studio-scale tooling and integrations at Spire, DreamView, Walt Disney Imagineering and Autodesk, championing Shotgrid/Toolkit adoption, Kubernetes-based microservices, and cross-DCC automation. Comfortable shipping everything from Renderman shaders and PySide apps to Unreal Blueprints and cloud-backed web services, he excels at translating artist workflows into reliable, documented systems. Raphael pairs deep production empathy—having supervised lighting and materials teams on feature work—with a developer’s discipline for observability and DevOps (OpenTelemetry, Signoz, Sentry). He also teaches advanced look-dev techniques and holds MFAs in creative writing, a background that surfaces in thoughtful documentation and clear technical communication.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Fiction, MFA Fiction at Arizona State UniversityMFA Poetry, MFA Poetry at Vermont College of Fine ArtsCreative Writing Workshops Poetry, Creative Writing Workshops Poetry at Victoria University of WellingtonBA English Creative Writing (Poetry), BA English Creative Writing (Poetry) at Skidmore College
Stackoverflow
31reputation
4kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (55)
text-to-image10
shotgun10
blender8
docker8
inpainting8
sublime-merge8
golang8
diffusion-models7
nginx6
buildkit6
react6
flask6
go6
deep-learning6
api6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shotgunsoftware/shotgunEvents
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Flow Production Tracking event processing framework.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
processing-frameworkshotgunevent-processing
raphaelmatto/flickr-archive
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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