Stewart Birnam
Sr. Software Engineer at Lucasfilm
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStewart Birnam is a senior software engineer with a decade of focused AWS backend experience and a long career in media and visual effects technology spanning major studios and enterprise vendors. He specializes in Python-based serverless and microservices architectures—Lambda, cloud storage, transcoding, VOD and live streaming—bringing production-grade systems to content pipelines. Currently at Lucasfilm after roles at PIX, Pixar, DreamWorks and Industrial Light & Magic, he blends deep domain knowledge of media workflows with scalable cloud engineering. Based in Oakland, he pairs hands-on development with systems architecture instincts, often translating complex media requirements into automated, cloud-native services. A linguistically trained thinker (Summa Cum Laude in Chinese Studies), he brings uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective to technical problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Summa Cum Laude, Chinese Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Summa Cum Laude, Chinese Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Github Skills (4)
qt-widgets9
widgets8
graphical-user-interface8
tweak8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
shotgunsoftware/tk-rv-shotgunreview
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:207 commits in 1 year 1 month
shotgunsoftware/tk-rv
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Tweak implementation of a toolkit engine for RV.
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 2 months
tweak
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