Hugues Evrard
Software Engineer at Google
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolHugues Evrard is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in graphics tooling and backend systems, currently based at Google in London and Paris. He co-founded GraphicsFuzz and after its acquisition has continued to improve graphics debugging tools such as the widely used Google GAPID, contributing robust error handling, shader cross-compilation fixes, and new smoketests. His background blends academic research—PhD work at Inria and a postdoc at Imperial College—with hands-on product engineering, giving him a strong foundation in both formal methods and pragmatic engineering. Comfortable across low-level graphics stacks and distributed backends, he brings a researcher’s rigor to shipping production-grade tooling. An understated detail: he rarely updates LinkedIn, so his public profiles understate the breadth of his open-source and debugging-focused contributions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (FR: Ingénieur), Computer Science, Honors (FR: mention Bien), Master's degree (FR: Ingénieur), Computer Science, Honors (FR: mention Bien) at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de GrenobleExchange Program, Computer Science, Exchange Program, Computer Science at Kyoto University
English, French, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
golang10
go10
grpc9
debug9
graphics-engine9
debugging9
opengl-es8
vulkan8
android7
build-automation6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/gapid
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
Graphics API Debugger
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 348 commits, 260 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hugues primarily focused on improving the error handling and functionality within the Google Graphics API Debugger (`google/gapid`) repository. Their work involved fixing issues in gRPC primitives, adjusting shader cross-compilation conditions, and addressing code formatting concerns. They also contributed by adding missing copyright notices to build files and refining the calculation of frame counts for a trim function. Furthermore, the user added a new smoketests command.
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google/gapid-dev-releases
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:40 releases, 43 commits, 49 pushes in 6 months
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