Summary
Rebs Guarina is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems for the VFX industry, currently leading development of Shotsub at Wētā FX. He specializes in Python and Flask backends, performance tuning, observability, and tooling for DCCs like Maya and Nuke, while also delivering PySide/Qt GUIs and contributing C++ work across production projects. His background spans systems and network administration at ILM and early roles managing SANs, NetApp filers and render farms, giving him deep operational insight into large-scale media pipelines. That systems-first perspective informs his pragmatic approach to designing HA services that are easy to monitor and maintain under heavy production load. With an MS in Electrical Engineering (Computers & Communications) and a BS in Statistics, he blends rigorous technical foundations with practical engineering that bridges infrastructure, tools, and application code. Colleagues rely on him for tackling thorny cross-discipline problems where software, systems and artist workflows intersect.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS EE, Computers and Communications, MS EE, Computers and Communications at University of the Philippines
English, Filipino, Spanish