Austin Shafer
Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Shafer is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently contributing to NVIDIA's graphics stack from Raleigh, NC. He focuses on computer graphics and operating systems, with hands-on experience in Vulkan/OpenGL implementations and kernel components. His background includes seL4 microkernel work—porting DOOM to Raspberry Pi and authoring an early graphics driver—as well as networking and modular routing protocol systems at Juniper. Comfortable in low-level C and build tooling, he has repeatedly improved modularity and update speed in long-lived codebases. Austin combines systems-level rigor with a gamer-minded interest in engine design, making him adept at bridging kernel, driver, and graphics application domains.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (89)
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netbsd10
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freebsd10
xen10
broadcast10
broadcasting9
rust-lang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amshafer/nvidia-driver
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Fork of the Nvidia FreeBSD driver to port the nvidia-drm.ko module from Linux
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 months
amshafer/freebsd
Apr 2020 - May 2024
FreeBSD src tree (read-only mirror)
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
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