Tyson Cross
Software Engineer at dneg
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorTyson Cross is a software engineer and creative technologist with over a decade of VFX and production leadership experience, blending an Electrical and Information Engineering background with deep expertise in lighting, look development, and rendering for feature films. He has held senior roles at top studios including Industrial Light & Magic and served as Head of Design and Head of Operations, pairing hands-on C++ and Python programming with pipeline and TD leadership. Tyson’s work spans academic teaching, curriculum design, and supervisory roles, and he brings practical knowledge of Maya, Houdini, Renderman, Katana and more to bridge artistic and technical teams. Equally comfortable prototyping machine learning, AR/VR, and real-time graphics as he is supervising a shot pipeline, he enjoys solving cross-disciplinary problems that fuse electronics, computer vision and storytelling. An avid photographer and occasional actor, Tyson leverages theatrical training to shape compelling visual narratives and team communication.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (23)
cnc-controller7
hardware7
cnc7
3d-printer6
code-generator6
gcode6
3d-printing5
atmel5
weighted4
spanning-tree3
sum3
subarray3
minimum2
semantic-segmentation1
machine-learning1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TysonCross/Gyruss
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 release, 173 commits, 2 pushes in 10 months
TysonCross/MinimumWeightedSpanningTree
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:29 PRs, 61 pushes, 7 branches in 29 days
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