Km Chan
Principal Engine Programmer at Tencent Games
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Summary
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Top SchoolKm Chan is a Principal Engine Programmer with 15 years of experience building high-performance game engines and graphics systems, currently leading engine work on Tencent Games' DaVinci Team at Morefun Studios. He combines deep graphics expertise with mobile platform know-how—contributing notable fixes for bgfx to improve Android/iOS EGLContext handling, OpenGL ES sRGB fixes, and robust iOS framebuffer management. Previously a Technical Director at M-inverse, he brings both hands-on engineering and leadership experience across studio and product contexts. Educated with a distinction MEng in Electronics and Information Engineering and a Computer Science bachelor's from Hong Kong universities, he bridges hardware-aware engineering and scalable software design. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often focuses on platform edge-cases that improve cross-platform stability and performance. Based in Hong Kong Island, he blends production-grade engine development with active open-source collaboration on widely used graphics tooling.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electronics and Information Engineering, distinction, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electronics and Information Engineering, distinction at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong
Github Skills (17)
ios10
gles10
rendering10
graphic10
render10
android10
egl10
opengl-es10
opengl10
c-language9
metal9
engine9
cprogramming-language9
xcode8
lua5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bkaradzic/bgfx
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS) & Graphics Engineer
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS) & Graphics EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Km made significant contributions to the cross-platform graphics library, primarily focusing on Android and iOS platform support. Their work includes adding support for external EGLContexts on Android, addressing sRGB texture-related compile errors for OpenGL ES 2.0, and improving the handling of iOS UIView resize/rotate events by recreating framebuffer and renderbuffer objects. Further, the user modified the build script to support custom Xcode actions.
metalbgfxvulkanvulkan-apiagnostic
ming4883/mix
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:103 commits, 98 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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