Susan xie
Software Engineer - Look Of Picture at Sony Pictures Imageworks
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Xie is a software engineer specializing in look development and stylization tools for feature animation, with 10 years of experience and a strong foundation in computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania (MS, summa cum laude). She has shipped production work at Pixar and Sony Pictures Imageworks—contributing to Inside Out 2, Elio, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse—focusing on Nuke and Katana pipelines, C++, and OSL. Equally comfortable as a hands-on Render TD and tools developer, she blends shot-fix/QC leadership with building artist-facing tools to push cinematic storytelling. Her background includes teaching computer architecture as a Head TA and creating interactive visualization and crowd simulations in Unreal and Houdini, reflecting a rare mix of systems thinking and artistic sensibility. Now based in Canada, she continues to drive stylization pipelines that let artists translate creative intent into production-ready imagery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High Technology High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Digital Media Design (Computer Graphics), magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Digital Media Design (Computer Graphics), magna cum laude at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
react7
css7
javascript6
adobe-illustrator3
adobe2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
suxie/industry-day
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:88 pushes in 5 months
suxie/f1tenth
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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