Andrew Willmott
Technical Consultant at Helioflow
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Willmott is a technical consultant and engineer with over two decades of R&D and production experience building game engines, VFX systems, and large-scale simulators. He led core systems on major titles including Spore (lead), The Sims 2, SimCity 4 and SimCity (2013), and shipped multiple Football Manager releases while modernizing graphics, animation and asset pipelines. At Wayve he architected the Infinity simulator—procedural, constraint-based, decoupled simulation/rendering with a custom GPU renderer—bridging research-grade graphics and practical data generation for autonomous driving. His research background in global illumination and geometry processing informs deep expertise in lighting, materials, fluid sims and resource-based simulation and path planning. An active contributor to graphics tooling (notably adding ASTC/ATC support to the bimg image library), he combines low-level C++/GPU work with Python accessibility for model exploration. Based in the UK with a CMU PhD, he brings rare breadth across creative production, scalable simulation, and engine-level systems.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Auckland Grammar SchoolBSc, Physics, Computer Science, BSc, Physics, Computer Science at University of AucklandPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (10)
deco10
c-language10
image-decoder10
cprogramming-language10
decode10
opendds10
graphics-programming10
decoder10
image-compression10
encoding9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bkaradzic/bimg
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Image library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Graphics Engineer
Back-end Developer / Graphics EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew significantly contributed to the `bimg` image library by implementing support for various image compression formats, particularly ATC and ASTC. Their work involved adding format support, decoding functionalities, and integrating these formats within the existing image processing pipeline. This includes modifications to the core image data structures, DDS and KTX support, and incorporating relevant libraries and encoders for ASTC. The user also updated and maintained the project's dependencies.
image-processingimage-library
andrewwillmott/bimg
Jun 2018 - Nov 2024
Image library.
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years 6 months
image-processingimage-library
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