Farshid Lashkari
Senior Software Engineer at WorldViz
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFarshid Lashkari is a Senior Software Engineer based in Santa Barbara with over 15 years designing and building high-performance VR applications and tools. He brings deep graphics and systems expertise, demonstrated by contributions to the widely used OpenSceneGraph project—improving its FBX importer, fixing image format handling, and optimizing core osgDB operations. At WorldViz he applies this low-level, performance-first mindset to shipping robust VR features and pipelines. A UC Santa Barbara computer science graduate, he combines academic grounding with long-running hands-on engineering at a company focused on immersive systems. Less obvious: his work often targets tricky cross-format and matrix issues that silently improve interoperability and runtime stability across VR asset workflows.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (8)
fbx10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
gif9
opendds9
cmake7
opengl-es5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
OpenSceneGraph git repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 12 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Farshid primarily contributed to the OpenSceneGraph's FBX importer, addressing bugs and adding new features. Their work included fixing an axis conversion bug in the FBX loader and adding support for normal, specular, and gloss maps. They also optimized array writing operations within the osgDB library. Additionally, they addressed issues related to DDS and GIF image loading, including fixing HDR DDS image format support and handling alpha values in animated GIFs, and improved matrix calculations in the FBX importer.
git-repositorycmakeopengl-esc-plus-plusopenscenegraph
flashk/OpenSceneGraph
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
OpenSceneGraph git repository
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
git-repositoryopenscenegraph
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