Sanjeev Kumar
Senior Pipeline Engineer at Skydance Animation
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSanjeev Kumar is a Senior Pipeline Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining DevOps and VFX production pipelines for studios including Skydance Animation, ILM, DNEG and MPC. He blends Python-driven tooling, CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins), and monitoring (Kibana) to automate deployment and integrate third-party DCCs into complex animation and compositing workflows. His work spans designing Nuke and Shotgrid integrations, microservices and web frontends, and production support for mission-critical studio tools. An active, modest open-source contributor, he improved user experience and cross-platform robustness for the widely used pytube project by adding progress feedback and path/compatibility fixes. Based in Northampton, UK, he pairs a Masters in Computer Science with practical VFX training, uniquely bridging academic grounding with deep domain knowledge of film production pipelines. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors and pragmatic solutions that reduce artist friction and operational risk.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pre University Senior Secondary 12th Grade Science, Pre University Senior Secondary 12th Grade Science at Govt Collage, LudhianaDRV, DAV School, PhillaurPost Graduate Diploma Visual Effects for Films, Post Graduate Diploma Visual Effects for Films at Vancouver Institute of Media ArtsMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Panjab UniversityBachelor of Science in Information System Information System, Bachelor of Science in Information System Information System at Kurukshetra University
Punjabi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (8)
wrapper10
python10
command-line-interface9
file-handling9
utilities8
systemd8
utility8
sys8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pytube/pytube
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Sanjeev primarily contributed to improving the user experience and functionality of the pytube library. They implemented a progress bar and function to read file sizes in a human-readable format. Additionally, the user fixed printing status updates and adapted the code for better compatibility across different operating systems. Their work also included converting relative paths to absolute paths and refactoring existing code.
downloadingpython-librarydownloaderpythonapi-wrapper
sanfx/git-maildiff
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Use this git command to email the coloured diff embedded in email or patch attachment with your colleague
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 39 commits in 1 year 4 months
gitcommandsscm
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