Ben Spencer
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Spencer is a Principal Member of Technical Staff and PhD-trained Computer Graphics expert based in London with seven years of focused industry experience in real-time and film rendering. He has driven lighting, sampling and ML-augmented rendering work at Unity and now architects graphics solutions at AMD, blending deep research in global illumination with production-hardened C++ engineering. His background includes building core renderer features at Walt Disney Animation and specialist R&D on Monte Carlo filtering and denoising at Double Negative, giving him rare end-to-end experience from academic research to studios and realtime engines. Known for bridging algorithmic innovation and practical implementation, he’s comfortable leading teams, establishing processes, and shipping complex rendering systems across CPU and GPU pipelines. An interesting detail: his career consistently moves between advancing state-of-the-art research and shipping production renderers used on major films and real-time platforms.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Swansea University
Github Skills (13)
shader10
scriptable10
render10
post-processing10
unity3d10
pipeline9
rasterizer8
computer-graphics7
rendering7
shading6
hlsl6
unity-dots6
llvm4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
i9neus/glslfx
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
i9neus/nnano
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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