Lina Versace
Software Engineer at Google
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLina Versace is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in OpenGL, Chrome OS, Linux, and systems programming in C, C++, and Python. She currently splits her time between Google and Intel, contributing deep expertise to open-source graphics stacks and Chrome OS platform components. Her open-source work includes substantive contributions to Mesa's i965 driver and the well-known glsl-optimizer repository, where she fixed texture corruption, improved debugging, and optimized rendering performance used in real-world applications like mobile Unity and Google Maps. Based in Portland, Oregon, she pairs a practical BS in Computer Science with a background in mathematics to solve low-level graphics and performance challenges. Colleagues rely on her for methodical debugging, driver-level refactors, and pragmatic configuration controls that prevent regressions in complex rendering pipelines. Lina brings a blend of systems-level rigor and hands-on optimization that consistently improves stability and performance in production graphics stacks.
15 years of coding experience
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at University of South AlabamaBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (12)
c1710
debugging10
debug10
glsl10
c1110
opengl10
mesa10
performance-optimization9
shader8
optimizers7
optimizer7
cross-compiling5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aras-p/glsl-optimizer
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
GLSL optimizer based on Mesa's GLSL compiler. Used to be used in Unity for mobile shader optimization.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lina primarily contributed to the i965 driver, focusing on optimizing and debugging OpenGL-related functions. Their work involved fixing texture corruption issues, adding debug information to aid in future debugging efforts, and implementing a driconf option for clamping the maximum number of samples. The user also refactored code and addressed issues related to rendering performance in the Google Maps application. The contributions involved directly modifying Mesa's i965 driver code.
metalshadersoptimizationgame-developmentcompiler
linyaa-kiwi/vkcube
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
Spinning Vulkan Cube
Contributions:13 reviews, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 8 years 3 months
vulkanopenglcube
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