Jonathan Kunstwald
Staff Software Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Kunstwald is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience who specializes in real-time, performance-critical systems and high-end real-time rendering. An RWTH Aachen graduate with honors, he blends rigorous academic expertise in geometry processing and HPC with hands-on engineering—having built a hobby 3D engine from scratch in C++ featuring clustered forward rendering, D3D12/Vulkan backends, GPU-driven submission, and advanced rendering techniques. He has deep C++ mastery across templates, custom allocators, fiber schedulers and runtime reflection, and has navigated large production codebases including game-engine–scale systems. As a founder and leader at Shaped Code and contributor to projects like the Remotery profiler web UI, he brings both product-minded ownership and pragmatic UI/UX improvements to tooling. Based in Aachen, Germany, he’s known for rapidly understanding complex algorithms and translating them into robust, efficient implementations that bridge research and production.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 1,1, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 1,1 at RWTH Aachen UniversityAbitur, 1,5, Abitur, 1,5 at Kippenberg-Gymnasium
German, English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
css10
javascript10
profiler10
html9
c-language4
vulkan4
c174
cprogramming-language4
c114
opengl4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Celtoys/Remotery
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Single C file, Realtime CPU/GPU Profiler with Remote Web Viewer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Remotery web viewer. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of window resizing functionality, including adding resize handles and adjusting internal components accordingly. They also addressed UI improvements, such as refining CSS for better visual feedback and fixing grid sizing issues. Additionally, the user made modifications to the window closing behavior and subtle hover highlights within the UI.
cpucudametalrealtimeremote
project-arcana/task-dispatcher
Oct 2019 - Feb 2023
High-performance intuitive task-based concurrency framework with fiber support
Contributions:3 reviews, 216 commits, 40 PRs in 3 years 5 months
asynchronousconcurrencygeventfiberintuitive
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