George Papadopoulos
Senior Software Engineer Expert Architect at Phoesion
Limassol, Cyprus
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Top SchoolGeorge Papadopoulos is a Senior Software Engineer and Expert Architect with 13 years of experience building scalable systems and leading engineering teams from Cyprus. As founder of Phoesion and a long-term principal at yodiwo, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with hands-on expertise in low-level graphics, real-time systems and complex import/parser fixes demonstrated by substantive contributions to SharpDX and Assimp. He excels at optimizing architectures and mentoring teams to deliver business-aligned, high-quality software and now drives architecture at XM. Notably, his open-source work improving DirectX math primitives and FBX importer robustness highlights a deep attention to numerical correctness and interoperability that often goes unseen in higher-level roles.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Patras
English, Greek
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Github Skills (24)
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c-language10
matrix10
animation10
quaternions10
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graphics-programming10
dotnet-core10
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fbx10
cprogramming-language10
csharp10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sharpdx/SharpDX
Mar 2013 - Jan 2014
SharpDX GitHub Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on improving the SharpDX library by implementing features related to low-level graphics programming and DirectX integration. Their work included adding support for unsigned integer variables in shader variables, adding rawvalue constructors for Half type, and adding Matrix3x3 class. The user also corrected quaternion-related functions such as the rotation look at methods, adding quaternion billboard function and the reuse of stable matrix functions. This shows a focus on improving the core mathematical and graphics-related functionality of the library.
pinvokesharpdxdirectxsketchupgraphics
assimp/assimp
Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on improving the FBX importer and parser within the Assimp library, addressing critical issues related to model transformations, metadata handling, and animation support. They implemented fixes for pivot transformations, handling geometric properties, and improved the detection of FBX glossiness maps. Furthermore, the user added support for multiple animations and fixed integer parsing, which enhanced the importer's ability to correctly process FBX files and their associated data. Additionally, they refined OpenGEXImporter for texture coordinates.
pythonc-plus-plusobjective-cvolume-renderingfbx-exporter
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