Shubha Jagannatha
Storytelling + Making | ex-Pixar, Startups

At Figment, we are creating the end to end ecosystem for telling infinite generative stories.
Experience
Career
2024Figment
Co-founderCo-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – 2026
2022Pixar Animation Studios
Lead Technical Director · Emeryville, California, United States · 2022 – 2024
2021Pixar Animation Studios
Technical Director · Emeryville, California, United States · 2021 – 2022
2020Coursera
Software Engineering Intern & Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow · Mountain View, CA · 2020
2019UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Student Instructor · Berkeley, CA · 2019 – 2020
2019Walt Disney Animation Studios
Software Engineering Intern · Burbank, CA · 2019
- 2018
TruckLabs
Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018
Bio
Builder and artist with an undying love for great storytelling + world-building. Spent my career shuffling between innovative startups and studios, with the past three years at Pixar Animation Studios where I led the charge in crafting the technical wizardry behind our 3D filmmaking pipeline for five unique animated masterpieces. Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences with specializations in Computer Vision, Graphics, and XR from UC Berkeley. Chronically wandering the internet, sharing learnings & ideas everywhere online.