Soumitra Saxena
Lead Technical Director at DreamWorks Animation
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSoumitra Saxena is a Lead Technical Director with 12 years of experience designing next-generation animation pipelines and production workflows, currently building a platform for open film and animation production at DreamWorks Animation. He specializes in translating creative ambitions into tangible roadmaps, championing industry standards like OpenTimelineIO and OpenColorIO, and introducing modern web and cloud technologies to streamline media, art, and production-tracking workflows. Soumitra has led cross-disciplinary teams to deliver artist-facing tools and modular systems using USD and other standards, while also solving deep technical problems across lighting, surfacing, and look development. He thrives on complex, multifaceted challenges and is known for making systems simple, consistent and user-friendly so artists and technical users can iterate confidently. An uncommon strength is his mix of hands-on TD work (from lighting and surfacing to previz and compositing) with strategic platform thinking that aligns R&D, production, and management.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Github Skills (12)
react4
blender3
simulations3
nextjs3
rapid2
aerodynamics2
modeling2
dynamics2
rendering2
physics2
python2
simulation2
Github contributions (5)
soumitrasaxena/workbench
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
soumitrasaxena/DNA
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 2 months
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