Summary
Satish Goda is a creative technical director and pipeline engineer with 13 years of experience building production pipelines and artist-friendly tools for animation and VFX, currently shaping studio technology at Netflix Animation. He combines deep Python, C++, and Qt expertise with a passion for teaching and documentation, having trained teams and developed studio-wide pipelines at Pearl Studio and Rhythm & Hues. Satish is active in the industry’s community and awards processes as a member of the Academy Software Foundation Open Source Days committee and Visual Effects Society awards committees. He has led Blender and Shotgun integrations, developed Shotgun Toolkit pipelines, and pioneered workflows that let artists work concurrently on very large shots. Known for blending technology and art, he mentors junior TDs and emphasizes knowledge sharing—his background includes both research at Stevens Institute and hands-on studio build-outs. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a practical, user-centered approach to R&D and production tooling for animated features.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech Mechatronics, B. Tech Mechatronics at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology
Lifelong Learning Everything, Lifelong Learning Everything at Khan Academy
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Chinese, English, Hindi, Telugu