Ashwin Bhat
Software Architect at Autodesk Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshwin Bhat is a Software Architect with nine years of professional experience based in San Francisco, currently driving graphics and material workflows at Autodesk with a focus on USD and MaterialX. He brings deep technical expertise in shader generation, unit and locale handling, and test infrastructure—skills honed through substantive open-source contributions to the AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX project, including Vulkan GLSL integration and shader compilation fixes. Comfortable operating at the intersection of core rendering systems and practical tooling, he improves cross-application material exchange and fixes hard-to-reproduce texture baking and unit-consistency issues. With an MS in Computer Science from USC, Ashwin combines research-caliber foundations with hands-on engineering that surfacing subtle, real-world interoperability problems and resolving them end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:57 reviews, 8 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin contributed to the MaterialX project by addressing code quality and functionality, including unit consistency and resolving shader compilation errors. They also made improvements to testing infrastructure, adding features for defining test parameters and translating material node graphs. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements to support locale and unit conversions, expanding the library's usability and fixing texture baking issues. They also worked on integrating Vulkan GLSL shader generation.
lookvfxexchangematerialreal-time-rendering
ashwinbhat/assets
Sep 2022 - Nov 2023
USD Working Group assets
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
assetsusdworking-group
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