Engin Arslan is a software developer with a Bachelor of Science in materials engineering and a postgraduate degree in visual effects. Before becoming a software developer, he worked as a visual effects artist / technical director on films and TV shows including Resident Evil, Tron, Mama, Vikings, and Strain. He received an Emmy and a Canadian Screen Awards nomination for his visual effects work. During his time in VFX, he fell in love with Python and with programming in general. As a result, he changed careers to be able to immerse himself completely in software development. 

Engin currently works at Rangle.io, North America's largest front-end development firm, specializing in developing apps using modern JavaScript. He also works at Seneca College as a part-time professor, sharing his love of programming with future VFX artists and publish online tutorials for Pluralsight and Lynda. He is the author of the book “Learning JavaScript with p5.js: Coding for Visual Learners”. He enjoys being active in the community and has presented at conferences and meet-ups such as Full Stack Toronto Meetup, PyCon Canada, Pycon Japan and FITC Web Unleashed.