Stuti R. Rastogi

Software Engineer

MPC Film•  March 2019 - January 2021

As the sole rendering developer at MPC's Montreal studio, and part of the global 3-person rendering team (supporting over 500 artists globally), my responsibilities varied from providing complete day to day support for different pipeline tools, to working on new rendering projects for the studio. - Upgrades: Responsible for migrating the studio's rendering pipeline to latest versions of Katana, Nuke and Renderman. Also supported the entire codebase of proprietary tools on these different versions. This involved understanding large Python and C++ projects on the fly and updating them to address the quick turn around of production. Being one of the first testers of new Renderman versions, my job provided an opportunity to work in close collaboration with Pixar as well. - Development: Responsible for the key project involving the management of the studio's software stack in a new proprietary container management system, which included a thorough dependency cleanup of 100+ Git repositories, and simplified the release cycle for the rendering team. As a team of 2, also designed and developed a new batch rendering tool for Maya to help with quick renders using Renderman. - Support: Worked in close contact with the Lighting department to understand their requirements and provide quick deliveries based on supervisors' needs. Assisted the principal shading developer with a few Renderman shaders and patterns as per show needs, helping in their testing and debugging. Also handled scripts and tools for specifically the Lighting, Lookdev and Compositing departments' workflow, thus providing constant support for the production pipeline of various shows like Godzilla v/s Kong, Cruella etc. - Gained experience in Git version control, agile technologies like JIRA, Confluence, Crucible as well as maintaining up-to-date user and developer documentation for artists and developers