About

Saswat Kumar Sahoo is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience developing pipeline and DCC tools for film and episodic productions. He specializes in Python, production and assets management systems, automated pipelines, workflow designing, Shotgun, Maya, Nuke, project resources planning, rendering systems, and DCC software management. Saswat has a proven track record of supervising pipeline development and technology infrastructure and is experienced in fast-paced production environments and collaborations with creative staff. He is skilled in developing flexible, configuration-driven pipelines to support heavy customizations per project, establishing workflows, procedures, and documentation, and developing plugins, libraries, and artist-facing UIs in DCCs like Maya, Nuke, and Houdini. Currently, Saswat serves as the Director of Production Technology at 88 Pictures, where he leads all research and implementation of technological innovations. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Pipeline Technology at 88 Pictures, where he led the Production Engineering and Technical Directors teams and was the main developer of the pipeline back-end, its API bindings, and integration with third-party software packages like Maya, Nuke, and Shotgun. He has also worked as a Pipeline Supervisor at Assemblage Entertainment, where he designed, developed, and supervised the building of a brand new pipeline with robust asset management and production tracking features. Saswat holds a degree in Information Technology and Management from Utkal University and has completed his CHSE from Ravenshaw Junior College. He is skilled in DevOps, integration, Python, research scientist, infra, backend, designer, MongoDB, Flask, UI, and frontend. Saswat is a detail-oriented, organized, and able to handle a variety of tasks in an efficient manner. He has strong technical, communication, and documentation skills and is excellent in problem-solving. Saswat has relevant experience of 17.04 years and is capable of leading the pipeline development across all departments, managing teams of technical directors, developers, and R&D engineers, training and mentoring TDs and production crew, and working with production and CG supervisors to establish needs and workflows.