Nir Benty
Principal Software Engineer, Real-Time Rendering at NVIDIA
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolNir Benty is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years focused on real-time rendering, systems design, and performance optimization, currently leading graphics work at NVIDIA in the Greater Seattle area. He architected and implemented core components of Falcor, an influential open-source real-time rendering framework used by researchers and showcased at major conferences, contributing foundational RenderPass and RenderGraph systems. His background spans high-performance rendering, shading and animation systems, and low-level graphics work at Intel where he led projects from software rasterizers to RGB-D facial animation and virtualization security features. Known for minimizing CPU overhead and maximizing renderer throughput, he combines hands-on C++/DX/Vulkan expertise with team leadership and mentoring. A Technion computer science graduate, he brings deep practical insight from both research-driven and product-focused graphics engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIAGameWorks/Falcor
May 2018 - Mar 2019
Real-Time Rendering Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:207 commits, 42 PRs, 480 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nir implemented core rendering framework components within the Falcor project, including the creation of RenderPass and RenderGraph interfaces, as well as initial implementation of a SceneRenderPass. The commits demonstrate the creation of fundamental classes for the rendering pipeline, including the supporting files and setting up the foundation for future rendering functionality. The user also integrated the scene into the rendering process by establishing the basis for future work with scene rendering with the included code snippets.
rendering
tfoleyNV/Falcor-old
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:328 commits, 1 branch in 1 year
real-timewebglreal-time-renderingrenderingvisualization
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