David Trounstine
Co-Founder Director Of Pixels at Reel to Render
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Trounstine is a seasoned creative technologist and co-founder based in San Jose with 13 years building scalable video production pipelines and broadcast studios for enterprise and global brands. He blends deep mastery of Adobe CC, Cinema4D, and DaVinci Resolve with hands-on leadership—founding and growing in-house multimedia teams that measurably increased brand reach and engagement. David has produced high-impact content (including a United Airlines testimonial that exceeded 3M views) and launched studio operations and workflows that standardize quality across marketing, events, and training. He also brings practical graphics engineering experience from contributing performance and material improvements to the Rajawali Android OpenGL engine, demonstrating an unusual mix of animation artistry and low-level rendering optimization. Equally comfortable storyboarding creative campaigns or tuning render pipelines, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with technical craft to deliver repeatable, high-value video experiences.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer and Video Imaging, BA Computer and Video Imaging at University of Silicon Valley
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
javas10
opengl-es10
3d-graphics10
shader10
android10
java10
material-design9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Rajawali/Rajawali
Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
Android OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 Engine
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:40 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Rajawali Android OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 Engine, focusing on optimizing the rendering pipeline and extending material support. Their work included adding convenience functions for mesh exporting, fixing compression issues in texture handling, and enhancing the materials with features like alpha masking, light color integration, and spot light implementations. The user also implemented improvements to existing materials and improved performance by reducing the number of calculations.
openglandroid-openglandroidopengl-es
Rajawali/RajawaliExamples
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
android3d-engineandroid-examples
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