Sarah Scialli
Production Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Scialli is a production engineer and senior software engineer with seven years of experience building real-time tools and pipelines across film, virtual production, games, and interactive media. Based in Los Angeles, she blends game-engine expertise and front-end development—contributing to projects from DreamWorks motion-capture pipelines to virtual production shoots at Scanline and production systems at Industrial Light & Magic. Her background spans roles as lead engineer, producer on award-winning indie games, and participant in Epic’s ICVFX fellowship, demonstrating a rare mix of creative direction and hands-on technical delivery. On GitHub she focuses on front-end UX and developer-friendly documentation, with contributions to Solid’s docs and interactive JavaScript learning tools. Colleagues rely on her for rapid prototyping and crisis-driven firefighting on live shoots, where she integrates bleeding-edge hardware into complex codebases. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA in Interactive Media from USC, pairing rigorous CS foundations with cinematic craft.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
North High School, Phoenix ArizonaM.F.A., Interactive Media, School of Cinematic Arts, M.F.A., Interactive Media, School of Cinematic Arts at University of Southern CaliforniaB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
solidjs10
typescript10
vitepress10
mdx10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
gatsbyjs10
html10
typescripts10
react10
gatsby10
signal9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nas5w/interview-guide
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
An opinionated, actionable guide for software engineering interviews.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 74 commits, 23 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily contributed to building the frontend of the interview guide website. They focused on structuring the website, adding content outlines, and improving the user interface. Significant changes included adding analytics, a star button, and adjusting the site's overall look and feel. The user also made numerous modifications to the configuration files.
engineeringleetcode
nas5w/typeofnan-javascript-quizzes
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
JavaScript quiz questions and explanations!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:232 commits, 130 PRs, 166 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sarah primarily focused on developing the front-end of a JavaScript quiz application. They implemented question templates, answer selection functionality, and UI elements using React. Significant effort was put into integrating user interactions and state management, including data persistence using local storage and adding styling to improve user experience. They were also responsible for the creation of site metadata for SEO.
javascript
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