Taylor Petrick
Senior 3D Software Developer at SideFX Software
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTaylor Petrick is a Senior 3D Software Developer with 14 years of experience specializing in graphics and simulation, currently driving rendering work at SideFX (Houdini). He has a strong foundation in modern real-time techniques (DirectX/OpenGL, deferred shading) and is actively exploring ray tracing through a personal path tracer project. His early career spans mobile and web internships at Enflick and Evernote and an entrepreneurial stint founding Orange Bytes, giving him cross-platform product experience from iOS/Android clients to backend services. At SideFX he progressed from intern to senior engineer, blending hands-on rendering engineering with practical tooling for artists. Beyond code, he brings visual sensibility from Photoshop, Inkscape and Blender3D that informs more usable graphics features. Based in Waterloo, he combines thoughtful academic training with a habit of shipping both research-driven prototypes and production-grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelors of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (39)
plugin9
xor9
unreal-engine-59
unreal9
houdini9
python-bindings9
maya8
autodesk8
blueprint7
raii7
compression6
opengl-es6
bit6
glsl6
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TaylorP/TML
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
sideeffects/pybind11
Aug 2016 - Jun 2021
Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
pythoncpppython-bindingsc-plus-plusseamless
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