Sean Mcduffee
ASWF Governing Board Member at Intel Corporation
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Mcduffee is a graphics software expert and engineering leader with 16 years of experience delivering production-grade rendering, simulation, and creator-facing solutions across film studios and platform vendors. At Intel he shapes 3D Creator strategy, drives platform requirements, and represents the company on the ASWF Governing Board and Technical Advisory Council, while previously building advanced volumetrics, hair, and physics systems at Blue Sky Studios. He combines deep systems-level skills in C++, SIMD, multithreading and numerical methods with hands-on renderer contributions (Embree, OpenVKL, OSPRay) to bridge studio workflows and high-performance implementation. Comfortable leading cross-discipline teams, he’s known for turning research-grade algorithms into robust, vectorized production code that fully utilizes modern processors. Outside of code, his background in high-energy physics instrumentation and interests from photography to hiking reflect a practical, experimentally minded approach to problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at University of Rhode IslandMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (34)
tac10
embree10
ray10
rendering9
design-tool8
gif-animation7
intel7
visualization7
path-tracing7
remote-development7
volume-rendering7
raytracing7
kernel7
optix7
fbx6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scmcduffee/tac
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
scmcduffee/aswf-landscape
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
🌄Landscape for popular open source projects used in the motion picture industry. This interactive landscape similar to that of the CNCF Landscape (https://l.cncf.io/) that sorts through popular open source projects used for visual effects, animation, and image creation, and shows details including GitHub stars, funding or market cap, first and last commits, contributor count and many more.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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