The team

Built by people who've lived in ShotGrid.

Gofer comes from three people who have spent their careers on the inside of VFX production: one in the compositing chair, one in production and product, and one building the pipelines underneath. Together, more than 55 years in the industry.

Peter Sidoriak

Co-founder · Product

Peter has spent 20 years in VFX compositing, from Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Digital Domain to compositing supervisor on episodic and feature work for Netflix, Apple TV+ and Amazon. As a supervisor he runs bids, schedules and client feedback as well as the work itself.

He has a habit of building the tools he wishes existed: a pipeline-integrated outsourcing tool, and an automated QC script that cut review time and client kickbacks. Gofer started the same way, as an answer to the hours artists and supervisors lose hunting for a status update or a client note.

Selected work

  • Wednesday
  • The Mother
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Alice in Wonderland

Tram Le-Jones

Co-founder · Operations & Partnerships

Tram is a production and product leader with more than 20 years in media and entertainment. She spent six years on Shotgun's Street Team (the product now called Autodesk Flow Production Tracking), advising more than 200 VFX and animation studios on their production workflows. She then built and led the Solutions teams at ftrack and Backlight.

Before that she produced VFX at Method Studios and Framestore and worked in production at Sony Pictures Imageworks. She founded the LA Pipeline Meetup, helps lead The Pipeline Conference, and was named Pipeline Hero in 2022.

Where she's worked

  • Shotgun / Autodesk
  • ftrack
  • Backlight
  • Framestore
  • Method Studios
  • Sony Pictures Imageworks

Katalina Williams

Co-founder · Engineering

Katalina has spent more than 15 years building pipelines and software teams for creative production. As Global Head of Software for Technicolor's advertising studios she led a 30-person team. She architected the 18-month program that unified The Mill's and MPC Advertising's pipelines into one platform for more than 1,000 artists across seven studios, with no major production outages.

Earlier she ran MPC's global pipeline team. She sits on the DigiPro Program Committee and the Visual Effects Society Technology Committee, and has mentored for the Academy Software Foundation.

Where she's worked

  • The Mill
  • MPC
  • Technicolor
  • Brand New School

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