2024 SLP Who's Who

Organization Team

Karen Ruggles
SLP Founder & Chair

Kaitlin Pollock (she/her)
Co-Chair

Ferby Cremer (she/her)
Group Engagement Lead

Sean Wallitsch
Volunteers Lead



Tom Szenher (he/him)
Speakers Lead

Barathy Rangarajan
Communications Lead

Ninette Tan
Outreach Co-Lead
Group Engagement Co-Lead
SLP Grad 2023





Learners

Arin Idhant (he/him)

Manya Mankad (she/her)

Joan Njeri Ndegwa (she/her)

Clara Nolan (they/she)

Linh Vu (she/her)

Pamela Melgar (she/her)

Raymond Feng (he/him)

Hannah Zhang (she/her)

Adelie Creek (she/her)

Ryon Sajnovsky (he/him)

Hridiza Roy (she/her)

Katrina Bawar (she/her)

Zach Nguyen (he/him)

Sofia Mitsuyuki de Menezes (she/her)

J. M.

Ife-Oluwa Osifalujo (she/her)

Esmeralda Garcia-Santiago (she/her)

Mary Briamonte (she/her)

Helena Xu (she/her)

Elena Wang (she/her)





Team Leads

Ximena Jaramillo (she/her)
Software Engineer

Gyedo Jeon (he/him)
Lead Technical Director

Douglas Tinoco
Performance Technical Director

Gavin Graham
General Manager, VFX

Narendra Kumar (Naren) Vadapalli
Principal Consultant/Architect



Mentors





Brian Kortbus
Software Engineer

Eric Reinecke
Software Engineer, Media Foundations

L. S.
Principal Technical Artist

S. W.
Software Developer

J. B.
Pipeline Technical Director



Brett Schlank
Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Carol Payne
Color Management Expert

Doug Walker
Color Management Expert

Jim Geduldick
VFX & VP Supervisor

P. M.
Character Effects Animation





Tracy Priest
Senior Pipeline Engineer

F. R.
Lead Technical Director

L. E.
Engineering Manager for Rendering

Akshay Dandekar
Color & Imaging Technical Director

Rachina Ahuja
Lighting Specialist TD







Dhirender Negi
Senior Research Engineer - Machine Learning

J. B.
Creative Specialist

Cameron Billingham
Software Engineer

R. D.
Technical Project Manager

J. S.
Technical Assistant I