Jacques De Richebourg
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacques De Richebourg is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of professional experience building graphics and game technologies for industry leaders like Apple and Pixar. He blends hands-on systems and rendering expertise—evidenced by contributions to Pixar’s high-profile OpenUSD project improving imaging, per-element picking, and Ptex mipmapping—with proven leadership running large games and graphics teams. At Apple he continues to deliver developer-facing frameworks that help teams delight customers, drawing on a decade-plus history of shipping high-performance titles and engines at EA Mobile and Firemint. Comfortable both managing teams and diving into low-level API and pipeline work, he’s known for bringing new technologies into production workflows. His background in computer science from RMIT and a track record across top studios give him a rare mix of graphics depth and product-focused delivery.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Natural Sciences, High School, Natural Sciences at Vallentuna GymnasiumHigh School, Natural Sciences, High School, Natural Sciences at The Geelong CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at RMIT University
English, Swedish, French, German
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
imaging10
usd10
shader9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Universal Scene Description
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacques primarily focused on improving and extending the USD (Universal Scene Description) library's functionalities. Their contributions involve the implementation of new APIs and refactoring existing code related to USD imaging, particularly with a focus on per-element picking and ID rendering. Further work included fixing issues with Ptex mipmapping and camera gate implementation. The user's work also included adding support for display modes such as Sheer and the ability to override color values.
universal-scene-descriptionscene
jacques-gasselin/multiplay
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Framework for doing multiplayer games
Contributions:8 reviews, 105 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 5 months
starcraftgamegamesgame-developmentmultiplayer
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