Melissa Santora
Manager at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarMelissa Santora is a Manager and senior software engineer based in New York with five years of experience building robust back-end systems and shipping production-grade features. At Amazon she leads engineering efforts while maintaining hands-on expertise, notably contributing to the Atom renderer and the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) by refactoring shader/material pipelines and introducing unit tests to stabilize builds. She blends managerial responsibilities with deep technical work on graphics tooling, shader build automation using .lua-driven pipelines, and reducing code duplication for maintainability. Known for turning complex graphics build issues into repeatable, tested solutions, she sits at the intersection of systems engineering and developer productivity.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
shader10
cprogramming-language10
asset-pipeline9
build-system9
lua9
unit-testing8
json7
vulkan7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
o3de/o3de
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:505 reviews, 681 commits, 184 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Melissa's contributions focused on resolving build issues related to the material pipeline. They implemented changes to the shader code, shader option values and also added unit tests to test code changes. The changes include the implementation of a new material pipeline that supports a more flexible approach, by allowing the use of .lua scripts to set-up and control shader build process. Furthermore, there are several changes related to a code refactor, to improve consistency of the system, and reduce duplicated code.
c-plus-plusmulti-platformcommercialworldshalo
o3de/o3de-atom-sampleviewer
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Atom sample viewer project for the Open 3D Engine
Contributions:63 reviews, 222 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 8 months
version-controlvolume-rendering3d-engineviewer3d-printing
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