Richard Lei
Software Engineer at Miris
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard 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.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Digital Animation, Certificate, Digital Animation at Capilano UniversityBritish Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Harvard Extension School
Github Skills (44)
openframeworks10
scene10
sparse9
volume-rendering9
openvdb8
usd8
voxel8
plugin8
compile8
data-structure8
shutdown8
react5
cpp5
ray5
python5
Programming languages (5)
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/RayTracingInOneWeekend
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Implementation of "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" book.
Contributions:110 commits, 4 PRs, 111 pushes in 7 months
ray-tracingray-tracing-in-one-weekendraytracing
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