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Staff Production Engineer / Technical Artist / Shaders

About

I am a technical artist with over 20 years of experience in VFX and animation. Super passionate about shaders and workflows, I enjoy the benefits of proceduralism, the craftwork of texture painting and lighting, and automating for pipeline efficiencies with an eye on UI for ease of artist use. I pick up new tools quickly and love experimenting with different approaches to solve some of the most difficult challenges. I have helped my employers design new processes as well as deliver many assets for productions. CG Specialties: Lighting, Shading, Compositing, Rendering, Programming. Tools: Python, Maya, Houdini, USD, Renderman, Nuke, Unreal

Location

Boulder

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

elevenlabs

gemini

Work experience

Software Engineer Intern at AI Assistant, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 y 2 mo, Pune

Python Developer Intern at ThirdEye AI (JBM Group Company), Dec 2024 - Dec 2024 · 1 mo, Gurugram

Education

B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder

M.S., Digital Imaging and Design, New York University

Public links

github: https://github.com/why-aditi

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/AditiKala