Jeff Wilkinson
Director at Samsung Electronics America
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Wilkinson is a seasoned software leader and director based in Dallas with 11+ years of experience delivering consumer-facing and platform software across games, XR, and TV ecosystems. He blends hands-on engine and graphics work—modernizing OpenGL tutorials and architecting OpenGL ES engines—with strategic product leadership, currently heading client development for Samsung TV mini-games including a shipped title, The Six. His background spans co-founding an educational software company (GameTutorials), senior engineering roles at Zynga and Newtoy, and pioneering VR/360° streaming and volumetric capture efforts at Samsung. Jeff is as comfortable shipping core game systems and mobile graphics as he is running DevOps, SecOps and global content-delivery initiatives for large-scale media products. Notably, he has a history of turning technical proofs-of-concept into production experiences (GearVR, MilkVR/SamsungVR, Gear 360) and mentoring teams across disciplines. His career reflects a rare mix of deep graphics/engine expertise, product intuition, and operational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AS Software Development, AS Software Development at DigiPen Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
shader10
opengl10
glfw10
platform-independent9
multiplatform9
math9
mathematics9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
gametutorials/tutorials
Aug 2014 - Jan 2015
This holds the tutorials for GameTutorials.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 10 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's initial contribution involved setting up a basic OpenGL application and demonstrating how to draw a triangle. Subsequent commits show the user updating the OpenGL tutorials to modern OpenGL 4 specifications. The user also updated the framework to use a GLFWManager and made changes to multiple tutorial projects, indicating a broad understanding of the codebase.
gametutorials/fontastic
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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