Ready Player Me, the company I co-founded 12 years ago, has been acquired by Netflix.
Hi, I'm Rainer, tech entrepreneur and engineer from Estonia. I co-founded Ready Player Me (acquired by Netflix). I work as a Director, Games Engineering in Netflix. I build products at the intersection of games, developer tools, avatars and AI. Reach out to me here.
It’s February 2026. Ember woke up to the gentle hum of the air conditioner outside her window. She had fallen asleep at her desk right after sending the team the remaining action items blocking tomorrow’s product launch.
Creating a high quality AI driven texturing pipeline with Stable Diffusion.
Starting to evolve my digital brain.
Blender 3.4 release brought various changes to improve the support for running Blender as a Python module.
Render 3D models server-side.
This is stated in Gall’s Law as a rule of thumb for designing complex systems that work.
Momentum over action over motion. It’s about getting more of what’s mostly right, rather than less that’s entirely so.
Articles you write on Medium aren’t yours
In many disciplines a greenfield project is one that lacks constraints imposed by prior work.
How simple it is to add localization support to your Netlify site
There’s trouble ahead. And there’s only one way to find out who’s the real troublemaker. Someone is a traitor. The others aren’t.