Jack Zhao

Jack Zhao is a Senior Software Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios, with a tenure starting in 2011. Zhao has led the development of a package management solution for the platform team, enhancing the management of over 2000 software packages, and played a crucial role in migrating a 10 million lines of code base from Python 2 to Python 3. Previous positions at Pixar included Software Infrastructure Engineer, where significant improvements were made to build processes, and Software Engineer In Test, focusing on enhancing QA workflows. Prior experience includes an internship as a Component Quality Engineer at AMD and a sales associate role at 7-Eleven. Zhao holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, earned in 2011.