James Webb
Software Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJames Webb is a London-based software engineer with 12 years' experience specializing in FPGA systems and compiler work, who also experiments with computer graphics in his spare time. He contributes actively to open-source 3D engine projects, fixing low-level graphics device issues across Vulkan and DX12, resolving GPU synchronization and Nvidia driver bugs, and improving engine stability and maintainability. His contributions to game engines include debugging serialization and memory issues, correcting math and quaternion routines, and tightening editor/engine integrations—demonstrating strong systems-level debugging and numerical care. James combines hardware-aware compiler knowledge with practical graphics engineering, making him effective at solving subtle cross-layer problems between drivers, APIs, and engine code.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
vulkan10
c-language10
game-engine10
game-dev10
engine10
game-development10
entity-component-system10
cprogramming-language10
3d-engine10
directx10
entity-component10
editor9
editors9
linear-algebra9
linux8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
turanszkij/WickedEngine
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
3D engine with modern graphics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:James focused on improving the 3D engine's graphics device implementations, primarily by fixing Vulkan and DX12 related issues. Their contributions included addressing swapchain resize and shutdown errors, ensuring proper GPU synchronization, and resolving a specific Nvidia driver bug related to bindless buffer descriptors. They also made refactoring efforts and code cleanup, enhancing the project's maintainability and stability.
vulkanbullet-physicspbrc-plus-plusentity-component-system
nem0/LumixEngine
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine
Role in this project:Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the LumixEngine's codebase. They addressed issues related to deserialization of data structures, preventing asserts and memory leaks, specifically within the editor and engine components. Furthermore, they added maths functions and constants, and corrected an error in quaternion normalization, as well as vector normalization functions. These changes demonstrate an involvement in core engine functionality and optimization.
cocos2dcppwindowsgamedevlinux
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