Gerry Fan

Palo Alto, California, United States

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Gerry Fan is a seasoned graphics and systems engineer with 11 years of recent experience and a long runway in driver and graphics development dating back to the late 1990s. He has driven developer adoption of key Android graphics and media technologies at Google—helping ship Vulkan on Android, GameActivity, CameraX video samples and public GSIs—while also contributing hands-on to open-source Vulkan, Oboe, and camera/sample repos. His background spans low-level graphics drivers, validation and build system automation across platforms (Windows, macOS, Android) from Intel to Google, with particular expertise in OpenGL, Vulkan and high-performance audio on Android. Based in Palo Alto, he blends system-level debugging and architecture with developer advocacy, and is notable for converting legacy samples to modern Android toolchains (CMake/Android Studio) and integrating CI/CD for native libraries.

11 years of coding experience

20 years of employment as a software developer

Master's Degree, Engineering Science, Master's Degree, Engineering Science at University of Toledo

Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at Xian Jiaotong University

Github Skills (32)

kotlin10

git10

vulkan10

c-language10

system-configuration10

scripting10

sample-size10

build-system10

cmake10

android-build10

camerax10

android-development10

sample-rate10

audio10

jna10

Programming languages (7)

PowerShellJavaC++CAssemblyKotlinPython

Github contributions (5)

googlesamples/android-vulkan-tutorials

Apr 2016 - Jan 2023

A set of samples to illustrate Vulkan API on Android

Role in this project:

Mobile Developer (Android)

Contributions:87 commits, 81 PRs, 118 pushes in 6 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Gerry primarily contributed to the development of Android-based Vulkan tutorial samples. Their work involved fixing bugs related to command buffer allocation, porting projects to CMake and Android Studio, and updating builds. They also added and modified code related to texture samples, including integrating dependencies and addressing formatting issues. Further commits updated build scripts, GameActivity usage and addressed issues stemming from NDK updates.

apivulkanvulkan-apiandroidkotlin

googlearchive/android-audio-high-performance

Oct 2015 - Mar 2019

Code samples and documentation for building high performance audio apps on Android

Role in this project:

Mobile Developer (Android)

Contributions:55 commits, 52 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 years 5 months

Contributions summary:Gerry primarily contributed to the development of Android audio applications, focusing on high-performance audio features. Their work involved refactoring code for stream management, including the cleanup and synchronization of audio streams. They also added a new "echo" codelab sample to the repository. Further contributions included porting the project to the AAudio API, updating code to use NDK-r15-beta1 and fixing issues within the audio processing logic.

performanceandroidhigh-performanceaudio

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