Sam De Lara
Software Development Engineer In Test at Apple
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSam De Lara is a Software Development Engineer in Test with eight years of experience bridging real-time 3D art and production tooling for XR and media applications. Based in Los Angeles, Sam has led 3D teams, built version control and asset management systems at TikTok, and now develops QA and automation tooling for Apple's Video Applications team. He brings a rare combination of hands-on asset creation (Maya, Blender, Substance) and pipeline automation (MEL, Python, Bash) that reduces manual work from minutes to seconds. At 3XR he scaled processes to deliver thousands of optimized real-time models for e-commerce, directly driving revenue and training dozens of artists. Sam is also an early adopter of AI-assisted art workflows, integrating tools like ComfyUI into production pipelines. Comfortable in both creative and engineering contexts, he excels at turning artist needs into robust, repeatable engineering solutions.
8 years of coding experience
BFA in Media Arts with Concentration in Animation, BFA in Media Arts with Concentration in Animation at Northeastern University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
model-viewer8
3d-models7
3d5
augmented-reality5
webvr5
gltf5
aframe5
javascript5
threejs5
webgl4
webxr3
exporter2
blender2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MIT-Reality-Hack-2020/GhostBustXR
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:44 commits in 2 days
samdelara/outliner-cleaner
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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