Richard Lei
Software Engineer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorRichard Lei is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in real-time technology for Visual Effects and Animation, currently building interactive artist workflows and streaming rendering tech in Wellington, New Zealand. He has led teams and architected GPU-accelerated plugins, data pipelines, and USD integrations at Weta Digital and Miris, shipping systems that bridge C++ scene models, Unity, Omniverse/RTX and USD Hydra. Known for pragmatic, experiment-friendly design, he builds developer-facing tools—asset importers, a Developer UI, and a workflow-agnostic task execution framework—that speed iteration and remote/cloud execution. His work combines deep graphics/renderer knowledge (Gaussian splats, CUDA/OpenGL ports) with practical production engineering like regression testing and CI across large codebases. Outside core engineering he has prototyped end-to-end artist workflows from web-based visualizers to auto-stereoscopic display demos, showing a rare blend of technical depth and product-minded creativity.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (32)
scene10
volume-rendering9
compile9
openvdb8
voxel8
usd8
plugin8
cpp6
radix-sort6
python6
visualization6
filesystem6
data-structure6
dockerfile5
raytracing5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moddyz/dotfiles
Oct 2019 - Dec 2023
Linux configuration files.
Contributions:2 PRs, 72 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
linux-configurationlinuxconfiguration-filesdotfilesshell
moddyz/Tri
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Building blocks for producing images.
Contributions:4 PRs, 159 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
image-processingbuilding-blocks
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