Skylar Thomas
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSkylar Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building applied AI and production pipelines for animation, film, and interactive experiences. Having co-founded Playbook and led engineering at Wonder Studios, Skylar specializes in scaling AI-native workflows and IP-safe infrastructure now used by major Hollywood studios. At Netflix they develop systems and graphics platform tooling that bridge emerging research with production rendering and VFX pipelines. Their background as a technical artist and creative technologist means they fluently translate creative briefs into robust, production-ready systems—an aptitude honed on projects showcased at Sundance, Tribeca, and SIGGRAPH. Based in Los Angeles, Skylar blends hands-on engineering with product and studio-facing leadership to push cinematic AI into everyday production.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science - The Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation, Iovine and Young Academy, Bachelors of Science - The Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation, Iovine and Young Academy at University of Southern California
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Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
playbook3d/playbook3d-comfyui-nodes
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 reviews, 12 PRs, 37 pushes in 5 months
skyguy99/skylarthomas-resume
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:303 pushes, 1 branch, 15 issues in 11 days
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