Adrien De Tocqueville
Senior Graphics Engineer at Rockstar Games
Paris, Ile-de-France, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrien De Tocqueville is a Senior Graphics Engineer with six years of experience specializing in advanced real-time rendering systems, currently at Rockstar Games after leading HDRP development at Unity Technologies. He owned major subsystems like adaptive probe volume GI, volumetric clouds, a physically based atmosphere, and the HDRP water system he showcased at GDC 2023, combining shader, CPU/GPU optimization, and artist tooling expertise. His open-source contributions to Unity's Graphics repo include light layer debug modes, alpha-to-mask states, and cloud improvements, reflecting deep hands-on work across lighting, materials, and the render pipeline. Trained at ISEP and 42 and experienced with Vulkan and machine learning workflows from an internship at Dassault Systèmes, he brings both formal engineering discipline and hacker-school pragmatism to complex graphics problems. Notably, he has balanced production-grade feature ownership with profiling-driven optimizations that bridge artist needs and runtime performance.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique at ISEP - école d'ingénieurs du numériqueProgrammation informatique, Programmation informatique at 42Baccalauréat, S, Mention Bien, Baccalauréat, S, Mention Bien at Lycée Saint-Jean-Hulst
English, French
Github Skills (13)
unity3d10
lightening10
lightning10
lighty10
csharp10
graphics-programming10
render10
dotnet-core10
rendering10
material-components9
shadergraph9
material39
material-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/Graphics
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Role in this project:
Graphics Programmer
Graphics ProgrammerContributions:187 reviews, 379 commits, 259 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Adrien's commits focused on enhancing the graphics capabilities of the Unity engine. They implemented new features such as a light layer debug mode and an alpha-to-mask render state. Furthermore, the user contributed to the creation of new debug panels and improvements for volumetric clouds. The contributions spanned various areas of the graphics pipeline, including lighting, materials, and shaders.
graphic
Unity-Technologies/WaterScenes
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
A collection of scenes showcasing usage of the new HDRP water system
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
owner-hdrp-teambilling-5056
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