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 (54)
freebsd10
ffmpeg10
egl10
rust10
wayland10
driver9
sdl9
filesystem9
benchmarking9
live-streaming9
hud9
obs-studio9
screen-capture9
compiler9
video-recording9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amshafer/Packmule
Dec 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 28 pushes in 2 years 11 months
amshafer/Pinch
Mar 2020 - May 2020
A simple borrow-checked language built using LLVM's MLIR
Contributions:61 commits, 28 pushes in 1 month
llvm
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