Steve Agland
Solutions Engineering Manager, Lighting at Netflix Animation Studios
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSteve Agland is a solutions engineering leader with 20+ years of production experience and 11 years focused on supervising lighting and rendering pipelines for feature animation and VFX. Based in Sydney, he leads cross-site teams at Netflix Animation, designing pipeline infrastructure, artist tools, and renderer components with deep expertise in OpenUSD, pathtracing, color management and DI automation. He combines hands-on shader and look-development roots with strategic pipeline automation—building in-house lighting DCCs, render-farm tooling and HDRI/plate processing that materially speed workflows and ensure cross-project consistency. A former web developer turned senior technical director, he uniquely bridges UX-aware tool design and low-level renderer optimisation, enabling creative teams to adopt new tech quickly.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (5)
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office3654
microsoft-teams3
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
sagland/vecassoc
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hpd/OpenColorIO-Configs
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Color Configurations for OpenColorIO
Contributions:2 comments in 4 months
opencolorioconfigurations
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