Steve Smith Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue, Wa

Bellevue, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Bellevue, Wa

As a Principal Engineer at Envelop VR, I was responsible for:* Managing a team of top-tier engineers developing bleeding edge productivity software for new Virtual Reality hardware (Oculus, Htc Vive).* Porting an existing engine from OpenGL to Direct3D, optimizing for Virtual Reality by maximizing CPU performance and minimizing latency.* Deep engineering on the Windows platform to allow full desktop integration into a VR environment, involving significant low-level plumbing at the graphics and input layers.* Reviewing, optimizing and designing code at all levels of the product, from setup/installation, networking and system level to graphics and VR.* Technical discussion and interaction with investors, partners and customers at all levels.

Kirkland, Washington

As the principal graphics engineer at Uber Entertainment, I was a key engineer on Planetary Annihilation, and was responsible for:* Architected a suite of CPU/GPU profiling and memory tracking/debugging tools to help optimize client and server performance.* Significantly re-architected graphics and other client-side systems for Planetary Annihilation (an OpenGL-based engine) to boost performance on target PC specs from <2fps to 60+ fps, leveraging latest OpenGL techniques and extensions where available. This work included re-architecting the engine from single-threaded to expand and utilize all available cores on the system.* Worked with art, technical artists to implement GPU-based particle engine, post-process pipeline (including full HDR, anti-aliasing, and SSAO), and various significant optimizations to all parts of the client code-base.* Testing, bug fixing and optimization of server-side code for gameplay logic, pathfinding, AI and networking code.

Working in Xbox ATG (Advanced Technology Group) helping developers make great games on Microsoft platforms.

Redmond, Washington

* Deep engagement with games ISV architecting, developing and optimizing prototype advanced future technology rendering on experimental graphics hardware platform. Resulted in first real rendered results on pre-release hardware, results report escalated to CEO level.* Architected, prototyped and optimized tasking API to run complex algorithms on multi-core CPUs (8 – 12 HW threads) and massively parallel experimental hardware (128 HW threads).* Prototyped methods to move post-processing, shadow mapping and other techniques from GPU to CPU. Included creating a UMD shim driver to intercept D3D runtime calls to UMD to insert post-process functionality in any title.* Engaged with AAA developers to disclose future roadmaps, prototype and optimize code on Intel HW platforms (CPU and graphics platforms)

Redmond, Washington

* Developed and presented new content at Gamefest US conference on system and graphics tracks (ATG)* Managed team of 5 top engineers, involved deeply in career development, performance management, role-modeling and mentoring (ATG).* Interfaced with developers to troubleshoot functional or performance issues, driving issues to resolution. Primarily focused on Xbox 360 graphics but with some engagement with DirectX developers on windows (ATG).

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics (Hons), Physics

Bsc, Physics