Elvar Unnthorsson
Senior Software Engineer at Arm
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolElvar Unnthorsson is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in real-time graphics and rendering, currently working at Arm after a tenure as Senior Graphics Engineer at Unity. He has deep Vulkan and rendering pipeline expertise and contributed notable fixes and feature work to Unity’s widely used Universal Render Pipeline, improving shadows, particle effects, and cross-platform compatibility. Elvar’s background spans game studios and indie development where he shipped graphics and performance work on titles like Trailmakers and multiple freelance projects, pairing shader/GPGPU skills with practical profiling and optimization. He holds an M.Sc. in Digital Media Engineering from DTU and a B.Sc. in Computer Science, combining strong academic foundations with hands-on engine-level coding. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to backward compatibility and platform-specific robustness—often resolving subtle device- and API-edge cases that breakers miss. Based in Copenhagen, he brings a rare blend of engine development, tooling, and game production experience to complex graphics challenges.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Reykjavik UniversityTechnical University of Denmark
Icelandic, English, Danish
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Github Skills (8)
3d-graphics10
shader10
graphics-programming10
graphic10
pipeline10
unity3d10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/Graphics
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Role in this project:
Graphics Programmer
Graphics ProgrammerContributions:611 reviews, 458 commits, 471 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Elvar primarily contributed to the bug fixing and feature implementation of the Universal Render Pipeline. Their work focused on addressing issues related to shadows, particle effects, and rendering in test scenes. They also updated the code for different aspects of the rendering pipeline and made sure the code was backward compatible by adding if statements for different platform and device types.
renderpost-processingpipelinescriptableunity
QThund/Graphics
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Contributions:70 commits in 3 months
renderpipelinescriptableunityunity3d
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