Adam Sawicki
Owner at Digital Dragons
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolAdam Sawicki is a seasoned software engineer and technical lead with nine years of professional experience focused on real-time graphics, game engines, and GPU tooling across companies like AMD, Intel, and Microsoft. He combines deep low-level expertise in C++/Python, DirectX/Vulkan, and shader languages with practical system architecture—authoring widely used open-source projects such as the Vulkan Memory Allocator. At AMD he led teams through machine-learning-driven rendering features (FSR4) and contributed to developer tools, while earlier work spans GPU drivers, shader compilers, and broadcast signal processing. A practiced presenter and long-time blogger (asawicki.info since 2004), he regularly publishes technical articles and speaks at conferences, helping developers ship performant graphics. Pragmatic, detail-oriented, and user-focused, he favors short iteration cycles and debuggable designs that balance engineering quality with business needs. Based in Warsaw, he also advises conference programming and actively contributes to the game development community.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, Software Engineering, M.Sc., Computer Science, Software Engineering at Politechnika Częstochowska
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Github Skills (16)
memory-management10
vulkan10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
data-structure9
datastructures-algorithms9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
build-system8
gmail6
google-sheets6
e-mail6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/VulkanMemoryAllocator
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:16 releases, 19 reviews, 916 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on implementing features in the Vulkan memory allocator library. They updated the Premake tool and rebuilt binaries using Visual Studio 2017. Their contributions included the design and documentation of a new defragmentation interface, along with the addition of functions for multiple allocation operations and the modification of internal code structures. They also integrated support for new Vulkan features such as KHR_buffer_device_address and optimized memory management within the library, showcasing their involvement in both low-level system architecture and core functionality.
memory-allocationvulkanmemory-management
GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/D3D12MemoryAllocator
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Easy to integrate memory allocation library for Direct3D 12
Contributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 215 commits in 3 years 8 months
direct3dmemory-allocationmemory-managementdirect3d12d3d12
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