Lou Quillio
Creative Engineer
Castro Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLou Quillio is a Creative Engineer with 16 years of experience based in Castro Valley, California, currently innovating at Google. He blends engineering rigor with design-minded problem solving, focusing on making technical systems and documentation more accessible and maintainable. Notably, Lou contributed to the widely used Google Draco project by transforming its bitstream specification from Google Docs into organized, styled Markdown with MathJax rendering and a clear README. His work reveals a knack for bridging developer experience and technical communication, streamlining complex 3D graphics specs for broader use. At Google since 2010, he brings deep institutional knowledge and a steady track record of shipping practical improvements. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic creative who cares as much about clarity as code.
15 years of coding experience
Vassar College
Github Skills (10)
markdown10
markdown-it10
mathjax10
technical-writing10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
point-cloud5
3d-graphics5
compression5
mesh5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/draco
Dec 2016 - Mar 2021
Draco is a library for compressing and decompressing 3D geometric meshes and point clouds. It is intended to improve the storage and transmission of 3D graphics.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:90 commits, 82 PRs, 40 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lou primarily focused on enhancing the documentation related to the Draco bitstream specification. Their contributions involved converting the specification from Google Docs to Markdown, reorganizing files, refining styles, and adding a README. They also adapted spec-related pages to Bootstrap, added a table of contents, and incorporated math rendering using MathJax.
meshtransmissionpoint-cloudscompressionmeshes
louquillio/av1-spec
Dec 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:138 pushes, 186 branches, 2 tags in 5 years 7 months
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