Kostas Anagnostou
Lead Rendering Engineer at Playground Games
Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKostas Anagnostou is a Lead Rendering Engineer with eight years of focused industry experience building and optimizing real-time rendering pipelines across console, PC and mobile platforms. He has led graphics and engine development on major titles including Fable and Crayta, and has deep expertise in GPU programming, PBR lighting, shadowing, postprocessing and platform-specific performance tuning. His background includes low-level optimization on Xbox360-era PowerPC architectures and multithreaded renderer design, giving him a rare mix of archival console performance know‑how and modern engine leadership. Based in Royal Leamington Spa, he combines hands-on shader and systems work with mentoring and engine architecture responsibilities. Notably, his career spans both studio leadership and academic research in computer graphics, reflecting a consistent focus on marrying cutting‑edge graphics algorithms with production-ready scalability.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Graphics, PhD, Computer Graphics at University of Warwick
Github Skills (16)
rendering10
gles9
opengl9
directx9
sdl9
glfw9
api9
metal9
engine9
bgfx8
vulkan8
webgl8
game-development7
cross-platform6
game-engine6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KostasAAA/FeaxRenderer
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 15 pushes in 10 months
KostasAAA/interplayoflight.github.io
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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