Chris Hellmuth
Graduate Student
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hellmuth is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of professional experience who is currently pursuing a Master's in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara with a research focus in computer graphics. His career spans senior engineering roles at Notion, Jama Software, and Cvent/CrowdCompass, plus earlier full-stack experience at Rentrak, giving him deep practical know-how in shipping product-grade mobile and web software. He balances industry pragmatism with academic curiosity, now channeling real-world engineering experience into graphics research and advanced system design. Based in North Vancouver, he combines a long track record of senior contributions with a renewed focus on cutting-edge research that bridges application development and rendering/visual computing. An understated strength is his ability to translate production constraints into research questions that yield applicable, implementable results.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Colgate University
Github Skills (57)
rasterizer10
tracer10
image-processing10
image10
rendering10
shading10
texture10
computer-graphics10
compiler10
hlsl10
rust10
llvm9
rust-lang9
standard-library9
formatter9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chellmuth/pathed
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Pathed: An educationally-motivated physically-based path tracer
Contributions:1283 commits, 62 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
rustpath-tracertracerpath
chellmuth/hive-viewer
Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:137 commits in 18 days
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