Thorsten Kaufmann
Production Pipeline Architect at Mackevision
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThorsten Kaufmann is a Production Pipeline Architect based in Stuttgart with 14 years of experience designing and optimizing content creation pipelines for high-end visual production. He has risen through technical and leadership roles at Mackevision—from 3D Artist to Technical Director and Head of Production—bringing deep domain knowledge of VFX and studio workflows to pipeline engineering. Thorsten combines hands-on engineering with systems thinking, contributing to open-source tooling such as the AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez project where he improved package configuration, multi-path config handling, and shell integrations for PowerShell/pwsh. His work emphasizes robustness and repeatable builds, reflected in added tests for complex version-range behaviors. Colleagues rely on him to translate creative requirements into reliable, automatable processes that scale across teams and projects. He studied Digital Film at SAE Munich, which gives him a practitioner’s appreciation for both artistic and technical constraints.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Digital Film, Diploma, Digital Film at SAE Institute Munich
Github Skills (11)
env10
sh10
powershell10
script10
shell10
environ10
package-management10
python10
scripting10
testing10
version-control9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
An integrated package configuration, build and deployment system for software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 47 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thorsten primarily contributed to the `rez` package configuration and build system, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their work involved adding support for multiple configuration file paths, including inverted version ranges. Furthermore, they addressed issues within the shell plugins, implementing new functionality for the PowerShell and pwsh shells, ensuring their correct operation. In addition, the user added tests to validate the implementation of inverted version ranges.
configurationintegratedresolved-environmentsenvironment-configurationrez
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