Holmes Futrell
Lead Software Engineer, Graphics Technology at Ginger Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHolmes Futrell is a Lead Software Engineer specializing in graphics technology with a decade of experience building visually driven systems and ML-infused graphics solutions from San Francisco. At Ginger Labs he progressed from Senior Engineer to leading the graphics technology team, applying research-rooted expertise from UC San Diego in computer graphics and vision. He blends practical production engineering with a strong mathematical foundation—holding dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences from UC Santa Barbara—enabling robust, numerically stable implementations. Passionate about both trail running and machine learning, he likens optimization in code to the method of steepest descent on a single-track climb, reflecting a pragmatic, performance-minded approach to problem solving. Known for bridging research ideas and shipping product-grade graphics features, he thrives on reducing complex visual algorithms into maintainable, high-performance systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (32)
objective-c10
ios10
bezier10
paths10
cubic-bezier10
cubic10
vector-graphics10
intersect10
vector10
xcode10
curve10
carthage10
macos10
swift10
cocoapods10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hfutrell/BezierKit
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:63 releases, 17 reviews, 1324 commits in 6 years 3 months
vector-graphicsbeziercurvepathsswift
hfutrell/Argonaut-2149
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Asteroid mining game for MacOS. Winner of "best overall game" in the uDevGames 2003 competition.
Contributions:14 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
gameopengludevgames
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