Summary
Toke Jepsen is a pipeline developer with 13 years' experience building and streamlining production pipelines for VFX and animation studios, currently focused on pipeline improvements at agora.studio while also serving as Technical Director at Bumpybox. He specializes in Nuke, Maya, Python-driven tooling, and production-grade deployment practices such as git-based version control, centralized environment launchers, and Pyblish publishing workflows. Toke has a proven track record delivering end-to-end pipeline solutions across studios large and small, from rigging and lighting to compositing and project management, and has repeatedly restructured pipelines to reduce wasted time for artists. Based in Cardiff, he pairs academic training in animation with hands-on senior technical leadership, and is known for pragmatic automation that prioritizes the end-user pipeline experience.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Animation, MA, Animation at Cardiff school of Creative and Cultural Industries
BA, Computer Animation, BA, Computer Animation at University of South Wales
Danish, English