Mark Lobodzinski
Senior Graphics Software Engineer at LunarG
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMark Lobodzinski is a Senior Graphics Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience in graphics display driver development and more than a decade managing and delivering systems software for leading GPUs. He has deep hands-on expertise in Vulkan and driver internals, currently leading validation layers and tooling work at LunarG while contributing to high-profile Khronos projects like Vulkan-Loader, Vulkan-Tools, and Vulkan-Headers. His background spans pre-silicon development, chip bring-up, and customer-facing engineering for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs, plus program management and embedded graphics work dating back to Compaq and aerospace simulation. Known for tackling low-level correctness, build systems, and API evolution, he blends C/C++ kernel- and userspace proficiency with pragmatic project delivery. Based in Fort Collins, he pairs rigorous academic training (MSc Computer Science) with a long track record of shipping commercial GPU stacks and improving open-source Vulkan tooling.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (20)
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develop10
c-language10
apidoc10
memory-management10
cmake10
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cprogramming-language10
testing9
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Github contributions (5)
KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Vulkan Loader
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 433 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Vulkan loader project. Their work focused on modifying and adding new APIs for image and buffer memory management. Their contributions include renaming semaphore enums, implementing fast clear APIs, fixing memory barrier references, and handling null fence objects. The user's commits demonstrate proficiency in C/C++ and an understanding of Vulkan API internals.
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KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Vulkan Validation Layers (VVL)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 315 reviews, 2273 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the development of the Vulkan Validation Layers by fixing scoping issues, resolving errors in the code, and removing unused code. They also worked on tests, including making unexpected errors safe for the native Android platform and verifying the creation of shader and pipeline objects. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on improving the robustness, performance, and correctness of the validation layers.
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