Pantelis Lekakis
Principal Render Programmer at Firesprite
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPantelis Lekakis is a Principal Render Programmer with over a decade in games-focused rendering, specialising in console, PC and mobile graphics and shader/compiler work. Based in Cambridge, he’s driven rendering tech in Unreal Engine 4/5 and shipped high-profile titles including Horizon: Call of the Mountain for PS VR2, Jurassic World: Evolution, Planet Zoo and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. His background spans low-level PS4 renderer abstraction, CPU/GPU optimisation and mobile PBR/IBL techniques, giving him fluency across platforms from embedded devices to VR. He pairs practical production experience with academic training in games development, and is known for squeezing performance from constrained hardware while enabling higher-fidelity visuals.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Games Development, 75.3, Masters, Games Development, 75.3 at University of East AngliaUndergraduate, Electronics Engineering, 6.32, Undergraduate, Electronics Engineering, 6.32 at Technological Institute of Piraeus
Greek, English, Japanese
Github Skills (94)
windows10
cmake10
visual-studio10
profiling10
cpp10
shader10
linux10
scene10
cross-platform10
spdlog10
vcpkg10
macos10
hlsl10
package-manager10
profiler10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
plekakis/yatm
Jan 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
plekakis/psxdev
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:112 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
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