Technical Director · Media Engineer
I build the technology behind the image.
The systems studios use to make movies, shows, games, and music — and the ones that get them to your screen.
Organizations I've worked with
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10+ years · Over 20 studios
Selected releases
Titles
A curated selection of the top titles involved with my work. I built the technology that made them, and that put them on your screen.
Crunchyroll
Delivery, launch, and live events
3 titles
Dragon Ball Daima
2024
Demon Slayer Season 4
2024
Kaiju No. 8
2024
20th Century Studios
Production technology
12 titles
The Woman in the Window
2021
Free Guy
2021
Vacation Friends
2021
The Last Duel
2021
Ron's Gone Wrong
2021
West Side Story
2021
The King's Man
2021
Prey
2022
Barbarian
2022
Amsterdam
2022
Rosaline
2022
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
Lucasfilm
Production technology
8 titles
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2021
Star Wars: Visions
2021
The Book of Boba Fett
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
Andor
2022
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023
The Mandalorian
2023
Marvel Studios
Production technology
12 titles
Black Widow
2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
Eternals
2021
WandaVision
2021
Loki
2021
What If...?
2021
Hawkeye
2021
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Moon Knight
2022
Ms. Marvel
2022
Pixar Animation Studios
Production technology
8 titles
Luca
2021
Pixar Popcorn
2021
Monsters at Work
2021
Dug Days
2021
Turning Red
2022
Lightyear
2022
Cars on the Road
2022
Elemental
2023
Searchlight Pictures
Production technology
12 titles
Nomadland
2021
Summer of Soul
2021
The Night House
2021
The French Dispatch
2021
Antlers
2021
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021
Nightmare Alley
2021
Fresh
2022
See How They Run
2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
2022
The Menu
2022
Empire of Light
2022
Walt Disney Pictures
Production technology
12 titles
Flora & Ulysses
2021
Raya and the Last Dragon
2021
Cruella
2021
Jungle Cruise
2021
Encanto
2021
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
2021
Better Nate Than Ever
2022
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
2022
Pinocchio
2022
Hocus Pocus 2
2022
Disenchanted
2022
Strange World
2022
Electronic Arts
Delivery, launch, and live events
12 titles
Star Wars Battlefront
2015
Unravel
2016
Battlefield 1
2016
Titanfall 2
2016
FIFA 17
2016
Mass Effect: Andromeda
2017
Star Wars Battlefront II
2017
A Way Out
2018
Battlefield V
2018
Madden NFL 19
2018
Anthem
2019
Apex Legends
2019
Industry references
What the credits don't show
“Shawn Hoffman is kind, capable, and relentlessly optimistic. During my time at Crunchyroll I was consistently impressed by his candid leadership and technical acumen. At Crunchyroll he partnered with development teams early to build reliable, robust, and fully automated services. As a pod (team) leader he actively mentored junior engineers and brought them along to learn as he worked. Most notably, Shawn was the…”
“Shawn and I have worked together for the past 8 months on Crunchyroll's Video Engineering team. We were partnered together while building out Crunchyroll's next generation video ingestion pipeline. After having worked with Shawn on multiple projects, I can say that he has been an extremely valuable member of our team. As a developer, he's the type of person I look for when partnering with SRE and Platform…”
All recommendations were written by their authors on my LinkedIn profile.