Simon is a Senior Software Engineer in the Back-End Graphics and Rendering team at HEAVY.AI in San Francisco. He joined the company in October 2017, after six years working on mobile GPUs and ray-tracing, and fifteen years as an R&D Engineer and Technical Artist in movie and TV visual effects in the Bay Area and London, including time at Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain, Double Negative, The Orphanage, and Cinesite. He can be seen in the background of a scene of “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones”, but even his own mother didn’t recognize him.