Frank Galligan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarFrank Galligan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years at Google, based in Los Gatos, California, specializing in 3D graphics compression and tooling. He has deep expertise in mesh and point-cloud compression, contributing substantive enhancements to the widely used Draco library and implementing Draco-based glTF compression pipelines in CesiumGS/gltf-pipeline. Frank combines low-level algorithmic rigor—fixing decoder edge cases and quantization handling—with practical engineering that optimizes asset storage and transmission for real-world pipelines. His work sits at the intersection of robust core libraries and production content tooling, making large 3D datasets more efficient to store and deliver.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
compression10
mesh10
javascript10
c-language10
3d-graphics10
gltf10
point-cloud10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
cmake7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
google/draco
Jan 2017 - Oct 2020
Draco is a library for compressing and decompressing 3D geometric meshes and point clouds. It is intended to improve the storage and transmission of 3D graphics.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:2 releases, 18 reviews, 117 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the `draco` library, focusing on testing and improving its robustness. They added new tests, including one for the `triangle_soup_mesh_builder`. The user also addressed multiple issues related to decoding, including fixes for quantized bits and attribute handling, improving the reliability of the library's core functionality. These commits suggest involvement in the core implementation and maintenance of the compression and decompression library.
meshtransmissionpoint-cloudscompressionmeshes
CesiumGS/gltf-pipeline
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Content pipeline tools for optimizing glTF assets. :globe_with_meridians:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 12 PRs, 100 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the implementation of a Draco compression pipeline for glTF assets, indicated by commits related to adding and integrating Draco compression functionality. They added support for creating Draco-compressed glTF files based on the KHR_draco_mesh_compression specification, demonstrating a focus on optimizing glTF assets. Their work involved significant modifications to the `compressMeshes.js` file, integrating the draco3d library and handling various mesh compression and decompression tasks. Additionally, they implemented code to get quantized min and max values, which can be used without decompressing the data.
globepipelinewebgl2playcanvas3d-converter
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