David Rodríguez
R&D Software Engineer at PICO XR
Galicia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Rodríguez is an R&D software engineer with a decade of experience building real-time 3D and web systems, currently contributing to immersive experiences at PICO XR after developing animation and simulation features for RealityKit at Apple. Comfortable across full-stack development and low-level graphics, he has improved robustness in widely used open-source tooling such as the Assimp 3D asset importer by fixing glTF and OBJ import edge cases. Trained in game design and computer engineering across institutions in Spain, Sweden, Poland and Catalonia, he blends academic rigor with hands-on product delivery. Known for a perfectionist, interdisciplinary approach that dates back to programming at age eight, he thrives on solving tricky edge-case bugs and bridging research ideas into production-grade code.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Informatics Engineering, 8.4711, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Informatics Engineering, 8.4711 at Universidad Santiago de CompostelaGame Design & Technology, Master´s Programme, Computer Engineering, Game Design & Technology, Master´s Programme, Computer Engineering at Göteborgs universitetBachelor of Engineering (BE), Informatics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Informatics Engineering at Uniwersytet ŁódzkiUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, Galician
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Github Skills (20)
debug10
c-language10
gltf10
fileio10
file-processing10
file-handling10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
obj9
asset-pipeline9
angular6
google-chrome6
clip6
struct6
browser6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
assimp/assimp
Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 PRs, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Assimp library by addressing bug fixes, improving code robustness, and fixing documentation. They focused on enhancing the glTF importer by preventing potential data truncation and expanding the image path resolution logic within the `EmbedTexturesProcess`. Furthermore, the user updated the AssbinImporter to close file streams before throwing exceptions and corrected documentation for the `aiImportFileExWithProperties` function. They also fixed an issue with the OBJ importer by correctly prefixing MTL texture paths.
pythonc-plus-plusobjective-cvolume-renderingfbx-exporter
david-campos/discord-bot
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Bot for discord that does random stuff
Contributions:4 PRs, 553 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
discordbotdiscord-jsdiscord-bot
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