Aaron Morris

I design services, user experiences, and APIs. I develop front and back end code. I value code standards, unit tests, stakeholder feedback, and team collaboration.

Experience

Core Pipeline Developer - Method Studios (Sep 2016 - Now)

• Creating, deploying, and supporting core services
• Main body of work as project lead of ingest, review, delivery products
• Technology: Python, Flask, Celery, Consul, Nginx, Ansible, Javascript, GraphQL

“One night we needed to send 65 shots to the client (2 flavors of QTs and EXRs per shot), under the [old tool] this could have taken upwards of 3-4 hours + to process whereas all shots were completed and ready to send in 15mins using the [new tool].”

Show Technical Director - Method Studios (Mar 2016 - Sep 2016)

• Main developer of show specific technologies and production tools
• Integrated houdini engine, created OTL for tile layout on Doctor Strange
• Implemented studio wide thumbnail and filmstrip generation in shotgun
• Created QT interfaces for production automation like batch task creation on disk

Assistant Technical Director - Method Studios (Sep 2015 - Mar 2016)

• Main point of contact for productions to pipeline with additional pipeline development tasks
• Assisted with cross pipeline migration on disk and in shotgun
• Created shot card generation tools for printable magnet sheets

Software Developer (C++) - Carleton University (2013 - 2014)

• Created simulated mission control environment for UX experiments on situational awareness
• Designed and developed in SDL2, C++11

Game Developer - Aura Core (2011 - 2013)

• Integrated and developed map editor, puzzle elements, dialog system in Actionscript 3

Education

Volunteer