Thiago Ize
Senior Manager, Software Development at Autodesk
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolThiago Ize is a seasoned software leader with 10+ years driving high-performance rendering systems, currently Senior Manager of Software Development at Autodesk leading the Arnold renderer core team. With a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah, he blends deep research experience in ray tracing with hands-on systems engineering—continuing to code while managing teams. His work focuses on performance, robustness, and memory efficiency, producing novel algorithms and low-level optimizations that scale across many CPU cores. An active open-source contributor, he has helped stabilize the widely used OpenImageIO project by fixing crashes, Windows path handling, and cache fingerprinting issues. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs academic rigor with practical production delivery, often tackling the tricky edge cases that reveal real-world reliability problems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Virginia
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (10)
debug10
c-language10
threaded10
cprogramming-language10
thread10
hyper-threading10
multithreading10
image-processing10
cpp9
gfx8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO
Apr 2016 - Jan 2022
Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 13 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Thiago primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the `openimageio` project. Their contributions include addressing a compiler warning related to OpenCV usage, resolving a rare crash scenario within the thread pool, and fixing issues related to Windows path handling within the `oiiotool` utility. The user also addressed a fingerprinting issue within the image cache and addressed a formatting issue.
apivfximageagnosticc-plus-plus
ThiagoIze/arnold-usd
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Arnold components for USD
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
usdarnold
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