Pauline Koh

About Pauline Koh

Enjoys developing elegant, user focused, solutions for complex, “impossible” problems.\"Vendor lock-in is as dangerous as technical debt and just as difficult to fix later.\"​,\"Production ready, cloud native, pipelines must be secure, and constantly optimized.\"​,\"​[post-production visual effects] render demand is like a gas: it expands to fill all available capacity\"​ Accomplished render resources manager with experience in feature animation, visual effects post-production pipelines. Leader in profiling, analyzing, and optimizing render and high performance computation operations in production crunch conditions. Specialist in leading teams toward innovative IT workflows leveraging cloud, collaboration tools, telemetry correlation, emergent behavior pattern analysis. Strategic problem-solver with experience developing new products and demonstration platforms to effect the change necessary for tackling root-cause scenarios.My opinions are my own and do not represent those of my employer.

Experience

1. Engineering Program Manager

   Apple

   Apr 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   EPM at Apple: Graphics, Games, Machine Learning.

Education

• TAFE NSW

  Certificate IV, Digital Media

  2008 — 2008

• UNSW

  Bachelors (Combined), Digital Media, Computer Science

  2011

• TAFE NSW

  Statement of Attainment, Manufacturing and Engineering

  2006 — 2007

Skills

• Renderman
• Graphic Design
• Nuke
• Computer Graphics
• Lighting
• Houdini
• Post Production
• 3d Printing
• Feature Films
• Character Animation
• 3d
• Scripting
• Animation
• Maya
• Look Development
• Visual Effects
• Computer Animation
• Film
• Mel
• Rendering