Kenneth Pruiksma
Senior Graphics Engineer at Firaxis Games
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Pruiksma is a Senior Graphics Engineer in Austin with five years focused on real-time rendering and a longer career blending 3D art and systems development. He brings deep C++ experience across DirectX and OpenGL and has shipped graphics work at game studios and cloud platforms, including lead roles at MaxPlay and graphics engineering at AWS before joining Firaxis Games. Kenneth contributes to open-source 3D engine work—fixing light and shadow rendering, shader bugs, and terrain mesh improvements in the notable O3DE project—demonstrating an eye for visual fidelity and engine robustness. He enjoys optimizing pipelines to render “as many pretty pixels” efficiently, and his background in digital animation gives him a practical artist’s sensibility when solving low-level rendering problems.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Digital Animation, BS, Digital Animation at Middle Tennessee State University
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Github Skills (13)
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actionscript6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
o3de/o3de
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:760 reviews, 121 commits, 159 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth contributed to the O3DE engine by fixing bugs, primarily related to the rendering of lights and shadows within the AtomLyIntegration gem. Their work involved modifying shader code, fixing crash issues in rendering, and ensuring consistent behavior across different light types. They also made changes to the terrain system, incorporating bicubic filtering and updating the mesh geometry and draw packets, further optimizing the rendering process. The user has also been working on updates to the terrain mesh manager.
c-plus-plusmulti-platformcommercialworldshalo
aws-lumberyard-dev/o3de-atom-sampleviewer
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 review, 4 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
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