Ryan Moran
Lead Technical Director at DreamWorks Animation
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Moran is a Lead Technical Director at DreamWorks Animation with 11 years of experience designing and shipping production tooling and workflows for feature animation. He currently leads technical strategy and day-to-day delivery on Shrek 5, translating artist needs into robust plugins and pipeline integrations across Maya, Houdini, Substance, Mari and DreamWorks’ proprietary tool Premo. A pragmatic engineering leader, he balances immediate production demands with longer-term toolset investments, runs Scrum iterations, and mentors incoming TDs. His background in C++ and Python OOP and hands-on pipeline testing has driven studio-wide surfacing and FX workflows used across multiple features. Based in Florida, he combines film-facing leadership with deep implementation experience, often serving as the primary contact for new TD-led tool development. An unusual strength: he pairs production schedule accountability with active prototyping, ensuring experimental tools are vetted through artist testing before rollout.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, GPA: 3.424, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, GPA: 3.424 at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (3)
location6
linter4
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RyanAMoran/DonkeyKong
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
RyanAMoran/NewParadigmsProject
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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