Ross Newton
CEO And Founder at Crowdpurr.com
Dayton, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRoss Newton is a founder and CEO who turned a side-project started while at Disney and Marvel Studios into Crowdpurr, a SaaS audience-engagement platform used by 175K+ users across 80+ countries. He blends deep visual effects and production pipeline expertise from a decade in Hollywood (Marvel Studios, major feature films) with a strong software engineering foundation dating back to classified J2EE work for the U.S. Department of Defense. Ross designs products and tooling with a practical focus on automation and scalability—skills honed building in-house VFX pipelines and cross-platform Nuke/Python nodes for large studio workflows. Based in Dayton, Ohio, he brings rare cross-domain fluency in art, VFX, and enterprise-grade software, enabling him to create engaging, reliable interactive experiences for both live and virtual events. An interesting through-line in his career is turning complex, high-stakes production problems into user-facing products that scale from film sets to Fortune 500 audiences.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Fine Art Drawing, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Fine Art Drawing at Wright State University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (156)
zero-configuration10
realtime10
tabular10
meteor-up10
javascript10
reactivity10
mup10
reactive-programming10
build-system10
rpc10
nodejs10
meteor10
mongodb10
tsparticles10
npm10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
evolross/instagram-tagscrape
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
NPM module for loading images from Instagram by hashtag without API access by means of scraping.
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 6 months
instagramnpm
evolross/redis-oplog-issues
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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