Jakob Bornecrantz
Senior Software Engineer - XR at NVIDIA
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJakob Bornecrantz is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in XR with a decade of experience building graphics, compute and immersive systems on Linux. He has driven OpenXR, Vulkan, OpenGL and OpenCL work at Collabora and now focuses on XR engineering at NVIDIA, blending low-level platform integrations with pragmatic system design. Jakob is an active open-source contributor—his backend work on projects like OpenHMD and LOVR improved time handling, action synchronization and expanded Linux support (X11/EGL and overlays). Comfortable navigating both driver-level code and higher-level VR frameworks, he brings deep platform knowledge and a knack for cleaning up and clarifying complex codebases. Based in Cambridge, he pairs industry experience with a hobbyist GitHub catalog that’s explicitly independent of his employer, reflecting continual curiosity outside of work.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (13)
c1710
lua10
linux10
virtual-reality10
driver10
c1110
openxr10
x119
egl9
game-dev8
multiplatform8
game-engine8
game-development8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenHMD/OpenHMD
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
Free and Open Source API and drivers for immersive technology.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 35 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jakob contributed to the OpenHMD project by implementing internal time helpers and platform-specific time implementations. These changes involved modifying core files, including the main library implementation and platform-specific files, as well as header files. The user also refactored and added comments to existing PSVR code for better clarity. The user further addressed code tidiness through header file adjustments, enhancing overall code maintainability and structure.
driversapioculus-questdriverpsvr
bjornbytes/lovr
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Lua Virtual Reality Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 12 commits, 9 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jakob focused on improving the OpenXR integration within the Lua Virtual Reality Framework (LOVR) project. Their contributions centered around addressing validation issues, fixing action synchronization problems, and ensuring correct type setting for action states. They also added support for X11 and EGL on Linux platforms, expanding the compatibility of the framework. Additionally, the user added support for overlay features and refactored the headset initialization process.
luaoculus-questrealityvirtual-realitygamedev
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