Edward Slavin
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Slavin is a senior software engineer with nearly twenty years of experience architecting and delivering high-impact R&D software for engineering, simulation, and entertainment domains. He blends deep expertise in computer graphics, 3D modeling, and real-time rendering with practical machine learning applications to advance design and simulation workflows. At Siemens he led cross-disciplinary efforts from digital twins for autonomous vehicle validation to cloud-based ML lifecycle systems and additive manufacturing tooling, and he now applies that experience at NVIDIA. An active OpenUSD contributor, he improved core metadata and usdview search/UI behavior, demonstrating full-stack skill in a widely adopted Pixar-led open-source project. Edward is a strong communicator who builds customer relationships and translates cutting-edge research into production-ready products, often drawing on his passion for gaming technologies to innovate traditional engineering software.
3 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Chemistry, 4.0, Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Chemistry, 4.0 at Lycoming College
Github Skills (11)
human-interface10
usd10
c-language10
user-interface10
metadata-management10
cprogramming-language10
python10
graphical-user-interface10
qt9
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Universal Scene Description
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 reviews, 9 commits, 20 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily focused on adding and improving the "displayName" metadata functionality for prims within the USD framework, including in the usdview application. This involved implementing UI elements in usdview for displaying and searching based on the "displayName." The user modified core USD code to support the new metadata field and adjusted tests to accommodate these changes. They also refactored search logic to improve performance and maintainability.
universal-scene-descriptionscene
NVIDIA-Omniverse/OpenUSD-plugin-samples
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
OpenUSD schema extension samples, build tools, and sample Kit extensions that use those schema extensions.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
omniverse-kit-extensionopenusd
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