Florian Penzkofer

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Florian Penzkofer is a staff graphics engineer with 12 years of experience building and optimizing real-time rendering systems, currently based in Cambridge, MA. He has a long history at Unity (with a brief senior role at Epic Games) where he progressed from software developer to staff engineer, driving improvements in the Scriptable Render Pipeline, post-processing, and Vulkan-native rendering plugins. Florian’s open-source contributions to prominent Unity repos demonstrate a pragmatic focus on shader correctness, mobile performance (ASTC normal maps, light count limits), and robust shader stripping to reduce runtime footprint. Equally comfortable in C++ and shader code, he blends systems-level rigor with practical cross-platform fixes that prevent NaNs and platform-specific rendering bugs—work that quietly improves stability across millions of deployments. Trained as a computer scientist at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, he brings deep graphics expertise plus an engineer’s attention to build and tooling details that often go unnoticed but materially impact product quality.

12 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Github Skills (19)

vulkan10

c-language10

shader10

rendering10

render10

graphic10

post-processing10

shadergraph10

graphics-programming10

pipeline10

dotnet-core10

opengl-es10

cprogramming-language10

csharp10

unity3d10

Programming languages (5)

C#C++CGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

Unity-Technologies/PostProcessing

Jan 2018 - Aug 2020

Post Processing Stack

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:66 commits, 12 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 7 months

Contributions summary:Florian's commits focus on optimizing the shader stripping process within the post-processing stack. They implemented automatic shader stripping for mobile platforms and disabled shaders based on graphics settings, improving performance. The user also addressed inconsistencies in resource stripping and refactored the stripping process to avoid modifying core package files. Furthermore, they added runtime checks and adjusted settings to improve the platform compatibility of post-processing effects.

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Unity-Technologies/Graphics

Nov 2018 - Dec 2022

Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline

Role in this project:

Graphics Programmer

Contributions:17 reviews, 44 commits, 24 PRs in 4 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on improving the Unity graphics pipeline, specifically related to the Scriptable Render Pipeline. Their contributions involved fixing shader graph issues, optimizing normal map handling for different mobile platforms, and addressing potential NaN (Not a Number) issues in post-processing effects and shader calculations. The user also worked on supporting features like ASTC normal maps and limiting light counts on certain OpenGL ES devices.

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