Denis Levesque
Senior Software Development Engineer at AMD
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDenis Levesque is a Senior Software Development Engineer at AMD in Toronto with over three years of experience building C++ and Python systems for computer graphics and performance-critical tooling. He has shipped work across VFX and simulation—updating Maya/3DS Max plugins, building Blender add-ons, and creating automated avatar pipelines and volume-meshing code. At AMD he played a central role in Compressonator releases, adding Brotli‑G and Linux packaging, instituting CI-driven testing, and improving BC1 compression performance by up to 50% through SSE4/AVX2/AVX512 SIMD optimizations while mentoring junior engineers. Outside of work he writes experimental renderers and a path tracer, combining a passion for rendering research with a pragmatic focus on low-level performance. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Hons.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Hons.), Computer Science at University of Manitoba
French, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (13)
3d-models10
sdk10
astc10
3d-model10
mipmaps10
model-compression9
rendering9
computer-graphics9
texture9
compression9
gui-application9
cuda8
optimization8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
denislevesqueAMD/compressonator
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
Tool suite for Texture and 3D Model Compression, Optimization and Analysis using CPUs, GPUs and APUs
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
compressionoptimizationcomputer-graphicstexture3d-model
GPUOpen-Tools/compressonator
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Tool suite for Texture and 3D Model Compression, Optimization and Analysis using CPUs, GPUs and APUs
Contributions:14 reviews, 3 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
etc2gui-applicationmipmapsbc1bc7
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