Nathan De Stafeno
Senior Rendering QA Engineer at Epic Games
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNathan De Stafeno is a Senior Rendering QA Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience in real-time rendering, virtual reality, and photogrammetry, currently contributing to Unreal Engine development at Epic Games. He has built and optimized UE5-based synthetic image generation pipelines for aerospace simulation at Acubed, producing labeled datasets and scalable render-farm integrations for training vision-based autonomy. Nathan’s background blends academic research in ray tracing and VR with practical systems work— from weather and geospatial tool integration to automated annotation workflows—demonstrating an ability to move prototypes into production. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs a strong MS in Computer Science with leadership in student- and project-based teams, and a knack for squeezing performance from complex rendering stacks to accelerate ML and simulation workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityAssociate of Applied Science Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Associate of Applied Science Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Linn-Benton Community College
Github Skills (29)
xaml10
uwp10
windows10
cpp10
csharp10
unreal8
geospatial8
game-dev7
flight-simulation7
matlab7
aircraft6
3d6
capstone6
simulation6
unit-test5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OSUGameDev/GroupGame
Apr 2019 - May 2019
OSU Game Dev Club
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 28 days
game-dev
Nathan127/Augmented-Reality-for-Structural-Visualization
Oct 2019 - May 2020
CS Capstone 2019-2020
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
cssjavascriptcapstone
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