Idris Porter Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Software Engineer/Solutions Architect for Untold Studios.Untold Studios is a creative studio servicing VFX/Realtime/Design/Production/Original content ideation, an overal creative powerhouse.The studio is fully cloud based, one of the first of its kind, which poses new and interesting challenges compared to the typical on-prem setup of most other pre-existing creative businesses.In my time here I've been involved in:- Design and implementation of various cost tracking… Show more Software Engineer/Solutions Architect for Untold Studios.Untold Studios is a creative studio servicing VFX/Realtime/Design/Production/Original content ideation, an overal creative powerhouse.The studio is fully cloud based, one of the first of its kind, which poses new and interesting challenges compared to the typical on-prem setup of most other pre-existing creative businesses.In my time here I've been involved in:- Design and implementation of various cost tracking systems to associate cloud storage/render/workstation costs to projects.- Design and implementation of render budget/allocation system on top of AWS Thinkbox Deadline to give projects isolated render capacity and controls to stay within budget.- Integration of Salesforce into the studio to enable streamlined busines operations from opportunity to project delivery.- The setup of 2 remote facilities for servicing VFX. This included: * R&D into various cloud storage solutions * developing syncing technology at the infrastructure level that our Pipeline team could build on top of * enabling multi-region rendering- Championing infrastructure as code (IAC) within the technology team: * Ansible for machine configuration * Packer for cloud image building * Terraform for provisioning dev/prod and multi regional infrastructure- Taking ownership and maintaining the studios renderfarm infrastructure (AWS Thinkbox Deadline) Show less

London, United Kingdom

Software Engineer for VFX:- Development and maintenance of renderfarm. (Python, OpenCue, Qt)- Integrating cloud rendering. (AWS)- Supporting Juniors.- Development and maintenance of pipeline. (Python, Qt, Rez, MongoDB)- Development of internal APIs. (FastAPI, Docker, Google APIs, CETA)- Integrating DCCs into the pipeline (Maya. Houdini, Nuke, Mari, Substance Painter, Flame)

London, United Kingdom

Software Engineer for VFX- Development and maintenance of pipeline. (Python, Rez, Qt, Ftrack, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, Mari, Gaffer)- Development of renderfarm tools. (Bash, Python, Grid Engine)- Development of various internal web applications. (Python, Flask, Docker)- Working-knowledge of GitLab CI- Working-knowledge of SaltStack

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Agile development process,Bug fixing,Implementing new features,VR DevelopmentRemote/On site Graphics installation/updates,Reporting to software manager,Communicating with various departments,C++, C#, GLSL, Cg, Unity, OpenGL, .NET, Visual Studios, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive

London, United Kingdom

Developed VR experience for Oculus Rift.C#, Unity, Cg

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Assisted in a robotics course teaching primary school aged children how to make their own robot and program it to move using Sniff programming language on Arduino's.

Computer Science, Pass

M103: Basic Cluster Administration, Pass

M220P - Mongo For Python Developers, Pass

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Software Development For Animation, Games And Effects, First Class Honours (1St)

Activities and Societies: Communications officer at Bournemouth University Free Fall society September 2014- June 2015

Education record

A Levels: 3 A (Maths, Physics, Chemistry) GCSE's: 13 A* - B