User:Me and/Abigail Brady

Abigail Brady (born 1980 (age 38) ) is a software engineer and comic writer. Along with Jon Wadelton and Jerry Huxtable, she received a science and engineering Academy Award in February 2018 as principal software engineer on Nuke, a digital compositing tool used in films such as Blade Runner 2049, Rogue One and The Jungle Book.

According to The Academy, Brady is the second openly transgender person to receive a scientific and technical Academy Award, after Paige Warner.

Brady is also the author of the comic Transrealities, and, alongside Laurie Penny, is part of the inspiration for the character Abigail Beryl Burns in Kieron Gillen's Iron Man comics.

Brady is from Leicester and lives in Camden Town, having moved to London in 2006. She studied computer science at the University of Southampton, and,, works for Sony on PlayStation Vue.