Jake Ryan
Developer Technology Engineer at AMD
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Ryan is a Developer Technology Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in graphics programming and performance optimization for games and real-time applications. At AMD he partners with game developers to improve graphics performance, stability, and feature integration across APIs like OpenGL and Vulkan, leveraging tools such as Radeon GPU Profiler, NVIDIA Nsight, PIX, and RenderDoc. His background in real-time interactive simulation from DigiPen and hands-on work with parallel algorithms and performance portability at PNNL give him a strong foundation in C++ and low-level systems tuning. Jake combines deep shader knowledge (GLSL) with practical pipeline debugging and build systems expertise (CMake, Visual Studio), and often uncovers subtle bottlenecks that span driver, shader, and engine boundaries. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings a research-minded approach to developer support, translating complex GPU behavior into actionable engineering guidance.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Real-Time Interactive Simulation, Bachelor of Science - BS, Real-Time Interactive Simulation at DigiPen Institute of Technology
Github Skills (119)
architectural-patterns10
physx10
render10
file-format10
data-oriented-design10
direct3d10
profiling10
voxel-engine10
cpp10
noise10
entity-component10
avx10
single-file10
terrain-generation10
plot10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JuanDiegoMontoya/Fwog
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Froggy OpenGL Engoodener
Contributions:4 releases, 59 commits, 35 PRs in 11 months
apiopenglglmgraphics
JuanDiegoMontoya/Voxel_Engine
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
A high-performance mesh-based voxel engine.
Contributions:357 commits, 2 PRs, 289 pushes in 1 year 7 months
rendertechniquesoptimizationmagicavoxelsandbox
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