Yuri Meshalkin
VFX Pipeline Engineer at Plarium
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Top SchoolYuri Meshalkin is a VFX pipeline engineer and CG generalist with 13 years of experience building production-ready tools and pipelines for films and animation, currently focused at Plarium. He combines deep hands-on expertise in USD, Maya, Houdini, Katana, RenderMan and crowd simulation with strong programming skills in Python, C/C++, MEL and Qt to streamline shading, rendering and asset publishing workflows. As former Lead of R&D at Animagrad and long-time TD/VFX supervisor, he has driven studio-wide Shotgun/Ftrack integrations, USD research and custom GolaemCrowd solutions that scaled complex productions. Based in Kyiv, he pairs a classical graphics and UI design background with practical systems thinking—often delivering both artist-facing tools and low-level pipeline components. Notably, his career bridges creative supervision and engineering, making him fluent at translating artistic needs into robust, automated production systems.
13 years of coding experience
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
manager10
render10
rendering10
phython6
houdini5
maya5
usd4
cpp3
docker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ymesh/maya-usd
Aug 2021 - Feb 2024
A common USD (Universal Scene Description) plugin for Autodesk Maya
Contributions:27 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 6 months
usdautodeskpluginmayaautodesk-maya
ymesh/USD
Jul 2021 - Oct 2024
Universal Scene Description
Contributions:38 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 4 months
universal-scene-descriptionscene
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