Feb 2025 – Oct 2025 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Provided technical leadership and expertise to solve complex creative and production challenges.
• Supervised pipeline support for two feature-length productions, ensuring efficient workflows and technical excellence.
• Owned and led development projects that advanced studio technology and improved production efficiency.
• Conducted code reviews, and mentored and trained the Technical Directors (TD) team to strengthen technical and creative capabilities.
• Collaborated with a multi-disciplinary team comprised of technologists and creative leaders in charge of implementing AI-driven solutions to augment production capabilities

Sep 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• I led all R&D and implementation of technology innovations at 88 Pictures across Mumbai, Bangalore and Toronto studios. I managed a distributed team of TDs and Engineers supporting ongoing projects while building the next generation USD-native, multi-site production platform.

Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 · 8 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · On-site

• I was part of the core Pipeline development team that worked on the core modules of the pipeline.

Sep 2019 – Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Lead all research and implementation of technological innovations at 88 Pictures

Aug 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• As the HoD Pipeline Technology, I led the Production Engineering, and Technical Directors teams. I am also the main developer of the Pipeline back-end, its API bindings and integration with third-party software packages like Maya, Nuke and Shotgun.

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• I was the main designer, developer and supervisor building a brand new pipeline with robust asset management and production tracking features. The pipeline was designed to be flexible to accommodate different types of projects - TV series, Commercials and Full length features. Naming conventions, data dependencies, entity hierarchies, relationships, access control and Integrations with dcc softwares like Maya, Nuke and Houdini were configurable for each show. The Pipeline back-end used MongoDb database. The client server system was RESTful using Flask framework. All front end UI tools were written using PyQt. I developed the API bindings with third party production management software packages like Ftrack and Shotgun.
• Apart from development, I am in charge of ensuring projects running on current pipeline run smoothly. This entails continuous bug fixing, adding new features and new tool sets and integrating new software packages or plugins.

Oct 2014 – Aug 2015 · 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• I worked as Senior Developer/TD for Prime Focus’ Animation pipeline. Worked closely with the London based core pipeline development team to support the 200+ strong CG departments in Mumbai. I was in charge of production testing every new pipeline feature and rolling it out on live shows. I contributed extensively to the core APIs of the Production Asset Management software. I built user facing toolsets for the modelling, lookdev, layout, animation and lighting departments.

Dec 2008 – Mar 2014 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Area, India

• As a specialist TD of the Lighting department, my role included the following :
• Develop command line tools, UIs using Python to automate or streamline the workflows for the show
• Troubleshoot issues escalated from TAs and Render Wranglers, identify recurring issues and inefficient workflows, develop efficient solutions or escalate issues to other departments as appropriate
• Keep close tab of the latest developments and project schedules in R&D, Pipeline, Rendering, I.T infrastructure and other technical departments to decide on new projects for the show's TD team
• Gather technical requirements for a new show by analyzing complexity of shots, production schedules and brainstorming with the supervisors of the shows; analyze postmortem reports of previous shows and critical feedback from ongoing shows to discover capability gaps
• Lead and mentor the Technical Assistants team
• Analyze, test and integrate new features from other TDs and R&D
• Teach classes to artists and other TDs on varied technical topics
• Document tools, workflows, topics of interest for the department
• Debug rendering issues, develop reporting & automation tools for the Render TDs to achieve render targets
• Represent the Lighting department in all technical forums and discussions

Mar 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• As a Pipeline TD at RnH India I got to do anything and everything required to keep the digital production running smoothly.
• I provided technical support for the various proprietary and open source applications used by 300+ users on Unix stations. I implemented process improvements, new features, and fixed bugs in Perl for the proprietary digital production pipeline, used by over a thousand TDs on a daily basis for multiple productions at multiple locations Los Angeles, Mumbai and Hyderabad. My typical day involved lots of troubleshooting, profiling and documentation of code, debugging and developing new tools to optimize the work flow in the studio and automate the time consuming non-creative work. I developed automation and reporting tools for the Render department apart from debugging render artifacts.
• Apart from that, I informed and educated the TD department about any changes in the work flow, new tools and technologies.