Graphics Programmer

Graphics Programmer — Prism Interactive

San Francisco, CA | July 2023 – Present

• Engineered a custom clustered forward rendering pipeline in C++ and Vulkan, reducing GPU draw call overhead by 26% and supporting 150+ active light sources at 60 FPS on target consoles.
• Optimized HLSL and GLSL shader code for real-time global illumination, decreasing pixel shader instruction count by 18% and cutting average GPU frame time by 3.2 milliseconds.
• Developed an automated shader build pipeline in Python that reduced shader compilation time by 35% across 4 distinct production platforms, significantly boosting designer iteration speed.
• Designed and implemented a runtime GPU memory pool system to manage resource allocation, reducing memory fragmentation by 22% and saving 350MB of VRAM during peak scene complexity.

Associate Graphics Programmer — Vertex Engine Group

San Diego, CA | September 2021 – June 2023

• Implemented post-processing shaders for depth-of-field, motion blur, and ambient occlusion, boosting average frame rate by 14% on mid-range PC graphic cards without degrading visual quality.
• Integrated RenderDoc and Pix profiling tools into the studio workflow, reducing the average debugging time for rendering artifacts and graphics driver crashes by 28% across the team.
• Authored low-level CPU-side data serialization systems for mesh and texture asset loading, improving game startup times by 21% and reducing streaming latency during gameplay transitions.
• Co-developed the unit testing suite for the internal rendering API, improving code coverage by 30% and eliminating 15 recurring graphics regression bugs prior to the alpha milestone.

C++, HLSL, GLSL, Vulkan, DirectX 12, OpenGL, RenderDoc, NVIDIA Pix, Git, Python, C#, Unity, Unreal Engine, GPU Architecture, Shading Languages, Multi-threading, Memory Management

Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion Engine

Role: Lead Rendering Programmer

Tools: C++, Vulkan, DirectX Raytracing, Git

Authored custom ray-generation shaders, achieving a 22% improvement in ray traversal efficiency and supporting animated objects at 60 FPS.

GPU-Driven Terrain System

Role: Graphics Programmer

Tools: C++, OpenGL, Python, CMake

Designed a compute shader-based terrain tessellation pipeline, reducing CPU draw call preparation latency by 35% and saving 12% in GPU compute time.

• Vulkan API Certified Developer (2022)
• DirectX Graphics Development Certification (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), German (Conversational)
• Open Source: Contributor to 2 open-source rendering libraries with over 300 stars on GitHub
• Availability: 2 weeks notice