Francisco聽Avila
Principal Software Engineer at Hover
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolFrancisco Avila is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently shaping Hover鈥檚 Interiors product through a blend of R&D, product strategy, and hands-on technical leadership. He has progressed through Staff+ and management roles at Hover, including Interim Head of Engineering & Applied Research, giving him deep experience scaling teams and aligning technical decisions with long-term business goals. Early research positions at KAUST and Intel produced publications and GPU/real-time ray tracing work, informing his strong graphics and WebGL expertise. He excels at turning complexity into clarity鈥攎entoring engineers, solving high-impact problems, and translating cross-disciplinary ideas into production-ready systems. Based in San Diego, he combines academic rigor with pragmatism, often applying research-grade techniques to deliver elegant, performant web-based visualization solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey
English, Spanish, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (45)
threejs10
webgl10
path-tracing10
denoising10
svg10
javascript9
cucumber-js9
canvas9
virtual-reality9
3d9
obj9
blender9
file-converter8
dxf8
augmented-reality8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hoverinc/ray-tracing-renderer
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
[UNMAINTAINED] Real-time path tracing on the web with three.js
Contributions:44 releases, 9 reviews, 62 commits in 1 year 1 month
bvhglobal-illuminationwebgltracingwebgl2
elfrank/virtual-texturing
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 7 days
threejsthree-jstexturingwebgl
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