Emil Axelsson
Software Engineer, 3D Vision at Apple
Norrköping, Östergötland County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Axelsson is a software engineer specializing in 3D vision and visualization with 14 years of experience building immersive rendering systems and interactive tools. Currently a Maps Visualization Engineer at Apple, he has deep expertise in graphics pipelines, stereo and framebuffer rendering, and back-end integration from his long-term open-source work on OpenSpace with NASA and major research institutions. His background spans academia and industry—from volume rendering of space weather datasets at NASA Goddard to WebGL visualization for architecture and frontend work at Spotify—bringing both research rigor and product-focused engineering. Emil blends a strong foundation in computer graphics and interaction design with teamwork and teaching experience, and maintains a habit of making complex visual systems accessible and performant. An avid musician and visualization tinkerer, he often bridges artistic sensibility with low-level rendering engineering.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Naturvetenskap, Naturvetenskap at Berzeliusskolans gymnasium, LinköpingMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science / Media Technology and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science / Media Technology and Engineering at Linköping University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (1)
cpp10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSpace/OpenSpace
Feb 2016 - Dec 2019
This is the official GitHub repository for OpenSpace: an open source astrovisualization project. For instructions on how to build and run OpenSpace, see the Getting Started Guides on the wiki page at http://docs.openspaceproject.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:627 commits, 118 PRs, 862 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Emil's commits focus on the core rendering pipeline, including integrating new renderers (ABuffer, Framebuffer), implementing a system of framebuffers and enabling stereo rendering. The code changes involve updating the render engine to work with the new renderers, changing the rendering method from a string to a enum, and integrating the various rendering components to the engine and integrating the various rendering components to work seamlessly. They are also responsible for taking and handling screenshots.
openspacescienceinstructionswiki-pageastronomy
LiTHehack/LiTHehack.github.io
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
LiTHehacks magiska hemsida!
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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