Karen Ghavam
CEO And Director Of Engineering at LunarG
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Ghavam is a seasoned software leader and founder with over a decade driving 3D graphics engineering and product delivery as CEO and Director of Engineering at LunarG in Fort Collins. She leads a team of driver and tool experts specializing in Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenXR and shader optimization, translating deep graphics expertise into commercial solutions, performance tuning, and engine porting. Previously she held progressive engineering and program management roles at HP managing workstation platforms and OEM programs, blending technical depth with operational rigor. Karen pairs a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science with hands-on leadership in driver innovation, and is known for turning complex graphics challenges into practical, timely, budget-conscious outcomes. An understated strength is her ability to bridge low-level driver work and customer-facing program delivery, ensuring technical breakthroughs have direct business impact.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. & M.S. Computer Science, B.S. & M.S. Computer Science at Colorado State University
Github Skills (55)
vulkan10
shader10
single-file10
glsl10
validation10
header-files10
api-specification10
api10
loader10
android-ndk10
partial10
hlsl10
subset10
qualcomm9
opengl9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Ecosystem
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Public repository for Vulkan Ecosystem issues
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 months
vulkanpublic-repositoryecosystem
KarenGhavam-lunarG/Vulkan-ValidationLayers
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Vulkan Validation Layers
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 year 5 months
vulkanlayersvalidation
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