Rico Koschmitzky
Pipeline Engineer at INDG | Grip
Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRico Koschmitzky is a senior Pipeline Engineer with nine years of experience building and leading VFX pipeline teams across studios like TRIXTER and INDG | Grip, specializing in DCC integration and renderfarm orchestration. He blends deep technical know-how in Maya, Katana, Arnold, USD/Omniverse and rendering toolchains with robust backend engineering—Python, GitLab CI/CD, Azure, Flask and custom testing harnesses—to ship scalable monorepos, installers and CI-driven workflows. His work spans core API design, proprietary material models (Arnold/Omniverse) and distributed job frameworks, and he has driven renderfarm innovations such as cgroups integration and open-source contributions like Trackteroid. Comfortable from hands-on shading and lighting to cloud infrastructure and USD development, Rico is equally adept at translating artist workflows into maintainable, automated systems. Based in Vechta, Germany, he brings a rare combination of practical look-development experience and production-grade software engineering that accelerates complex animation and VFX pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Digital Film Design - Animation/VFX, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Digital Film Design - Animation/VFX at Mediadesign University of Applied Sciencesfxphd
German, English
Github Skills (40)
cgi10
packaging10
pyside10
katana10
logger10
resolver10
pyqt10
renderman10
user-friendly9
login-system9
qt9
nuke9
python9
tractor9
houdini9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TrixterFilm/jobtronaut
May 2020 - Jun 2022
Tractor API extension for authoring reusable task hierarchies.
Contributions:8 reviews, 108 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 2 months
pixar-tractorpythonhoudinikatanahierarchies
rkoschmitzky/logbook
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
An user friendly graphical interface for reading log messages
Contributions:4 releases, 61 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 3 months
vfxpythonloggergraphical-interfacelogging
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