Stephen Curran
Sr 2D FX Artist at Stelx Productions
Lambton Shores, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Curran is a senior 2D FX artist with 10+ years crafting visual effects and compositing for children’s television and feature projects, currently leading FX work at Sinking Ship Entertainment. He blends deep After Effects and Nuke expertise with hands-on experience in Blender, Houdini and Unreal, and contributes to open-source decentralized identity projects as a back-end/devops collaborator—demonstrating a rare crossover between VFX pipelines and systems engineering. A practical tinkerer outside the studio, he designs in Fusion 360 and fabricates parts via 3D printing and CNC, and experiments with electronics, woodworking and metal machining to solve creative problems. Trained in film production with studies in aerospace engineering, he brings methodical problem-solving and a maker’s instincts to visual storytelling and pipeline tooling.
10 years of coding experience
Diploma, Film and Television Production, Diploma, Film and Television Production at Humber CollegeToronto Metropolitan University
English
Github Skills (9)
git10
aries10
python10
sphinx10
documentation10
configuration-management9
cicd8
devops7
bash5
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
decentralized-identity/aries-rfcs
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Hyperledger Aries is infrastructure for blockchain-rooted, peer-to-peer interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:167 reviews, 421 commits, 277 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the `aries-rfcs` repository by modifying and creating scripts related to Aries Interop Profile (AIP) updates and RFC listing. Their work includes developing a Python script to list RFCs changed since AIP version setting, updating the AIP diff script to use the main branch, and merging branches related to feature implementation and protocol updates. They also modified test and HTML files, suggesting involvement across different project areas.
hyperledgerconsensusblockchaininfrastructuredecentralized-identity
openwallet-foundation/acapy
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
ACA-Py is a foundation for building decentralized identity applications and services running in non-mobile environments.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:81 releases, 444 reviews, 502 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the documentation and configuration of the Aries Cloud Agent Python project. Their work involved modifications to the documentation files including the addition of diagrams for deployment models, and updating the main documentation file. They also introduced several changes in the configuration files, improving documentation formatting, importing necessary dependencies, and updating the header information.
pythonvonethereumdecentralizedverifiable-credentials
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