Krister Wombell
Software Engineer at Meta
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorKrister Wombell is a pragmatic software engineer with two decades of deep expertise spanning computer graphics, computer vision, compilers, video codecs and cloud video services. He has led GPU, OpenGL driver and media codec efforts at companies from 3Dlabs to Creative Technology, built an LLVM-based OpenCL compiler and runtime, and architected GPU-driven compositing and encoding pipelines for cloud and iOS at Animoto. Currently at Meta, he blends low-level systems knowledge with production-scale service experience, making him effective at shipping performant multimedia infrastructure. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, Krister’s career includes early game and VR graphics work (including on Starfox and second‑gen VR machines), a thread that explains his long-standing focus on real-time rendering and embedded compute. His rare mix of compiler backend design, video codec engineering and cloud-native rendering gives him a practical advantage when turning research-grade graphics tech into reliable products.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
390reputation
122kreached
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Github Skills (74)
player10
shader9
reflection-api9
visualizations9
ijkplayer9
ios9
ffmpeg9
reflection9
video-player9
android9
api8
bytecode8
elasticsearch8
encoding8
kibana8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kuwerty/eapolproxy
Dec 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
kuwerty/ijkplayer
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
mediacodecios-androidandroidplayer-basedvideo-player
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