Mike Blumenkrantz
Chair at Valve corporation
Greater Hartford United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Blumenkrantz is a veteran graphics and systems engineer with 16 years of experience, currently chairing OpenGL specification efforts at The Khronos Group while contracting for Valve to lead development of the Zink OpenGL-over-Vulkan driver and maintain Lavapipe. He has deep hands-on expertise across Linux graphics stacks, Wayland/X11 compositors, networking, compression, and databases, and has driven feature work, conformance testing, and significant performance improvements in Mesa. Mike thrives in large technical domains where he can both focus independently and collaborate to innovate, preferring projects that allow freedom to explore impactful changes. His background includes stewarding the Enlightenment desktop and EFL at Samsung and contributing to compression tooling like lrzip, reflecting a blend of applied engineering and hobbyist curiosity. Based in Greater Hartford, he pairs a multidisciplinary liberal-arts and mathematics education with a pragmatic approach to shipping robust open-source infrastructure. Notably, he combines specification leadership with active, low-level driver implementation—a rare mix that bridges standards and production-quality graphics code.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, English, Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, English, Philosophy at University of Connecticut
English, c
Github Skills (200)
servo10
terminal-app10
gcc10
mold10
direct3d10
hud10
javascript10
pathofexile10
linux10
browser10
validation10
efl10
api10
graphics-programming10
rust10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zmike/servo
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 62 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 1 month
servojavascriptbrowser-enginebrowser
zmike/ecef
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:51 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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