Michal Valient Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Cary, Nc, Us

I tend to wear multiple hats at Epic.I'm heading a large (120+) part of Unreal Engine engineering, focusing on multiple core areas. Rendering teams revolutionized industry with Nanite, Lumen, TSR, Niagara, Substrate and many more. Platform teams make sure UE ticks on all consoles, mobile, Mac, Linux, AR/VR devices and HMI platforms making it the engine of choice for many industries. Foundation teams own the low-level core of the engine, performance profiling tools, content cooking, distributed compilation and task execution, CI and scaling it all to cloud. Online team handles interop of engine, our games and all console platforms.I'm also moonlighting as engineering director of many of our special projects showcasing the Unreal technologies - Lumen In the Land of Nanite, The Matrix Awakens, Electric Dreams.

Cupertino, California, Us

I was driving Apple Metal, a project spanning many internal and external software teams. I focused on utilizing my game developer experience to align Metal with the practical needs of real-time engines.I worked across software and GPU hardware architecture teams on novel features paving the way for GPU driven rendering such as indirect attribute buffers, indirect command buffers or sparse textures to name a few.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Direction of shared Decima engine technology.I led the of a team of rockstar senior and principal technology programmers spanning rendering, sound, streaming, skinning and other core technologies.Engineer by heart, I designed and implemented many of the Decima engine systems from core of the parallel renderer architecture and graphics features to task scheduler used by the rest of the engine.Games shipped - Horizon: Zero Dawn, Killzone Shadow Fall, Killzone 3, Killzone 2.

I was engineering director for trueSpace7 and truePlay, new generation and novel architecture of the award winning Caligari DCC package. We focused on scalable node graph representations of data and computation and created one of the first real-time, fully 3D, collaborative environments for 3D modelers and artists. I also designed and implemented the real-time rendering and material engine for these products.