Sean Snyders
Distinguished Engineer at buildingSMART International
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolSean Snyders is a distinguished engineering leader with over 20 years blending research-grade AI and neural network expertise with hands-on product and startup experience across VFX, CAD/CAM, and AEC domains. He has driven world-first film visual effects technologies at Weta, founded motion-capture and hardware startups, and led the commercialisation and cloud-native re-architecture of computational design platforms that powered SketchUp’s Live Components. At Trimble he now shapes strategic 3D data interoperability, open-standards engagement and cross-industry partnerships, representing the company on bodies like buildingSMART and the Alliance for OpenUSD. Sean pairs divergent creative exploration with disciplined engineering practices—often turning experimental research into scalable, production-ready services and developer SDKs. He holds an M.Sc. summa cum laude in Computer Science (Neural Networks) and is notable for moving between deep technical implementation, company-building (including successful acquisitions), and standards leadership.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) summa cum laude, Computer Science (Neural Networks), Master of Science (M.Sc.) summa cum laude, Computer Science (Neural Networks) at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (76)
cmake10
cpp10
ninja10
linux10
conan10
package-manager10
csharp10
dotnet9
package-management9
visualizations9
elasticsearch9
kibana9
dotnet-core9
fluid9
cpp-library9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SeanSnyders/TestExamples
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021
General repo for testing examples made public
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
testingtest-runner
mattermachine/cork
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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