Mike Erwin
Lead Rendering Engineer at Riot Games
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMike Erwin is a lead rendering engineer with 16 years of systems- and graphics-focused experience building high-performance tools for game and film pipelines. He blends deep GPU and OpenGL/GLSL expertise with systems programming across macOS, Windows and Linux, and has shipped work at Blender, Epic, AMD, DreamWorks, and now Riot Games. As a founder of a tooling company, he has hands-on experience bridging Blender and Unreal Engine workflows and engaging directly with artists and customers at GDC and SIGGRAPH. Mike favors clean, fast, native code, strong profiling and SIMD optimization, and has a long-standing interest in human-computer interaction and retro computing that informs practical, user-focused tool design. He holds an MLA in IT from Harvard and a history of shipping real-time rendering subsystems and import/export formats that make complex assets usable in production.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS computer science, BS computer science at The University of Southern MississippiMaster of Liberal Arts Information Technology, Master of Liberal Arts Information Technology at Harvard University
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Github Skills (46)
webgl10
threejs10
gltf10
draw10
gif-animation10
animation10
animated10
pixel-art10
gif10
pixel10
aseprite10
3d-models10
collada10
surface10
playcanvas10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
significant-bit/brigge
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
significant-bit/OpenSubdiv
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 6 branches, 4 comments in 3 months
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