Christopher Root
Web Graphics Engineering Manager at Geomagical Labs
San Anselmo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Root is a Web Graphics Engineering Manager with nearly 18 years of experience building high-performance rendering systems across film VFX and large-scale data visualization. He blends deep C/C++, JavaScript, and Python expertise with hands-on experience in Vulkan/OpenGL and WebGL to deliver both native and web-based real-time graphics and simulation. Christopher has led small teams of senior graphics engineers to design custom render engines, modernize low-level foundations for multi-GPU and distributed deployments, and ship customer-facing mixed-reality design applications. At HEAVY.AI he architected a multi-GPU server renderer that visualizes multi-billion-row datasets in milliseconds and contributed build-system and multi-GPU integration work to HeavyDB. Comfortable bridging research, production, and product metrics, he pairs a filmmaking pedigree from ILM with rigorous engineering discipline from database and visualization systems. Based in San Anselmo, CA, he’s known for turning complex rendering requirements into pragmatic, testable architectures that scale.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Visualization Sciences, Master of Science (M.S.), Visualization Sciences at Texas A&M UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English
Github Skills (12)
gpu-programming10
build-system10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
sql-database9
database9
gpu9
relational-databases9
databases9
cuda8
opengl8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
heavyai/heavydb
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
HeavyDB (formerly OmniSciDB)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:147 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the integration of the rapidjson library, a likely JSON parsing tool, into the project. Further contributions include the addition of multiple CMake modules to find and integrate dependencies like GLFW3, GD, GLEW_MX, and EGL, indicating work on build system configuration and dependency management. Further commits include updating the codebase to utilize the new QueryRenderManager multi-gpu API, with corresponding updates to the primary CMakeLists.txt file. This suggests responsibility for optimizing the query engine for multi-GPU environments.
cudareal-timevisualizationgpuheavyai
heavyai/mapd-draw
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
2d shape drawing and interaction library using an HTML canvas 2d rendering context. Basis for lasso tool in MapD Immerse.
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 5 years 8 months
interaction2d-canvascanvasmapdrendering
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