Forrest Reiling
United States
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Top SchoolForrest Reiling is a systems-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in GPUs, computer graphics, mixed reality, machine learning, and system performance across the full graphics stack from drivers to compositors and applications. He has shipped GPU bring-up and driver work at Apple, drove graphics and MR integration and performance burndowns at Google’s Fuchsia team, and designed latency-analysis and safety-linked performance metrics for autonomous vehicles at Cruise. Forrest combines deep low-level hardware collaboration with pragmatic systems-level optimization, able to uncover performance wins in unexpected places and quantify latency impact across complex dataflows. An active contributor to the Flutter engine’s Vulkan rasterizer, he blends production-quality engineering with research-grade measurement techniques. Currently on a self-funded sabbatical riding a motorcycle through Latin America, he will be available to rejoin teams in early 2026.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at McCall-Donnelly High School
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Github Skills (7)
vulkan10
flutter-engine10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
cplus10
skia9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 36 commits, 63 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Forrest primarily focused on enhancing the Flutter engine's Vulkan rasterizer. Their contributions involved implementing buffer recycling logic and optimizing the Vulkan rasterizer. They also worked on improving the memory management of the vulkan rasterizer and fixing teardown order, along with a fix for a crash in the software fallback path. They also contributed to performance improvements and improved tracing within the Vulkan rasterizer.
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freiling/engine
Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
The Flutter engine
Contributions:135 pushes, 28 branches in 4 years 10 months
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