Paul Elliott
Staff R&D Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Elliott is a Staff R&D Engineer with eight years of professional experience and a long track record building visualization and interactive systems from his Chapel Hill base. He currently contributes to Kitware’s visualization efforts and has a history of running VizWorkshop, where he combined product work with hands-on development for nearly a decade. His open-source contributions to vtk-js show practical expertise in web visualization internals—fixing texture formats, color transfer functions, and widget/image mapping bugs that improve cross-platform rendering. Paul blends full-stack engineering with applied research sensibilities, and his background in both technical sales and software engineering gives him a pragmatic perspective on delivering usable visualization tools.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (7)
webgl10
javascript10
visualization10
visualizations10
opengl10
texture9
webassembly9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/vtk-js
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Visualization Toolkit for the Web
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 13 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the `vtk-js` repository, which is a Visualization Toolkit for the Web, by fixing bugs and improving code quality. Their commits addressed issues in the `ImageMapper`, `ColorTransferFunction`, `Texture`, and `WidgetManager` modules. The contributions included updating the internal format of textures, fixing cropping planes, and applying modified color maps.
reactjavascriptdata-visualizationscientific-visualizationgraphics
PaulHax/vtk-js
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Visualization Toolkit for the Web
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 years 2 months
javascriptreactdata-visualizationvisualization
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