Name: Adrien Veschambre
Nationality: French
Age: 23
Highest obtained diploma: Master's Degree in Computer Graphics "Informatique pour l'Image et le Son" at Université de Bordeaux (here, in French)
Current position: Pipeline R&D at InEfecto Atlantis Studio in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Skills & Projects
☆ Languages
- French: native proficiency, et voilà.
- English: professional proficiency bundled with hilarious jokes and outrageous slang.
- Korean: certified B1/B2, lived in South Korea.
- Spanish: B1/B2, lived in Spain.
- Japanese: started learning basics the day I bought foot warmer patches instead of face masks and vinegar instead of cooking oil.
☆ IT
- Proficient programming in C/C++/C#, Python, Java, HTML/CSS and SQL, already developped using JavaScript, Matlab and x86 assembly.
- Pipeline development for different kinds of productions. Experience mostly on Maya but also Nuke and Motion Builder, Shotgun integration. Experience with Alembic, USD and others.
- Daily use of bash shell, git and compilation/debug tools. Clean code, code review, continuous integration. Experience on Windows and MacOS as well.
- Strong OpenGL practice and understanding. Mesh processing, various realtime / precalc implementations in C++.
- AI related works mainly using Keras and Tensorflow. Up to date with current AI image enhancing technologies for production.
- Other miscellaneous skills and projects:
- Database design and management using SQL
- Web dev, right under your eyes
- Complexity theory and implementation of a SAT solver for a graph-related problem
- Animated short movie for a 48 hours creative contest
Work experiences
- Pipeline R&D at InEfecto Atlantis Studio, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - from January 2021 (full time position, on site):
I'm curently working on Tara Duncan animated series as Pipeline R&D, my daily missions are essentially focused on providing new tools for the artists / wranglers, maintaining existing pipeline and teaching artists to work efficiently with provided tools.
- Computer Science Teacher at ECV Digital, Bordeaux, France - September to December 2020 (part-time job, on site):
I have been in charge of teaching Computer Science to third years for a semester. I did the course conception, teaching both on site and remote and evaluation. I organized as well a three days workshop focused on Computer Graphics for first years.
- Conputer Graphics Developer at J-Cube Inc., Yokohama, Japan - April to August 2020 (internship, on site) and September to December 2020 (part-time job, remote):
I worked as a developer on Maya plug-in 'Multiverse', a USD pipeline provided for large scale productions.
- Workshop supervisor at Magic Makers, Bordeaux - Summer 2017 & from Sept. 2018 (part-time job):
I've been weekly teaching tech to kids aged 8 to 16. I was also in charge of newcomers' technical formations. Working in a small structure brought me to deal with team management and HR. I also worked for Ubisoft as a Magic Makers representative.
- Gaming event assistant at Nintendo Europe, Paris - July 2017 & October 2018:
I was part of the Nintendo hosting team for renowned conventions held in Paris: Japan Expo in 2017 and Paris Games Week in 2018, both around 200.000 visitors. I've been in charge to introduce to-be-released highly anticipated video games to visitors, medias and guests.
- English to French translator for Scratch 3.0 with M.I.T team - Second half of 2018 (voluntary work):
I’ve helped M.I.T Scratch Team with French translations along with other french native speakers for Scratch 3.0 release. We discussed about terminology and brought some major improvement over 2.0 version thanks to everyone’s experience teaching coding with Scratch in various contexts.
Get to know me
☆ Hobbies
- Cinema, especially animated features.
- Photography, and images in general. I've put some pictures of mine down below.
- Dance, I've already danced on stage.
- Pedagogy, I taught coding to kids and undergrad students for 4 years.
- Language learning and language acquisition theory, that's my nerd side.
☆ Fun facts
- I've been interviewed by Hyundai Youth in Korea for a lifestyle article, available here, section 2.
- I featured in a famous K-Pop music video.
- I'm obsessed with color palettes.
Some pictures of mine:
