Career
He is the principal architect of two computer languages, ScriptX (1992–1996) and MaxScript (1996). In 1992, Wainwright sold Apple Computer his structural framework for an object based, language and virtual machine operating system called Objects in C. He became the lead architect for ScriptX, a language and media player developed by Kaleida laboratories After Kaleida Labs closed its doors in 1996, Wainwright went on to serve as the principal architect of MaxScript, the scripting language of Autodesk 3ds Max.
This language has been used in game development as a part of the Maxis Sims animation processing pipeline.
Compared to ScriptX, MaxScript has explicit syntax to support 3D animation. Crowd Science was funded by Granite Ventures.
As of 2015 Wainwright is the Vice President of Engineering at Kollective Technology Incorporated. (previously known as Kontiki Incorporated), a company he co-founded in 2001.
Wainwright was also the first non-employee Amazon.com customer, ordering the book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.
An Amazon building is named after him.
