Paul Melamed
Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies
Novato, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Melamed is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of systems and engine programming experience and eight years focused at Unity Technologies driving graphics and rendering features. He specializes in real-time graphics and shader development, notably contributing to Unity's Graphics repository by implementing a performant decal system with support for material maps, correct UV mapping, and instanced rendering optimizations. His background spans games and interactive systems at companies like Take-Two, SEGA, and Nihilistic, giving him deep expertise in engine internals and cross-disciplinary performance tuning. Based in Novato, California, he combines low-level rendering know-how with pragmatic engineering to ship robust features for both opaque and transparent rendering passes. Peers would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns complex graphics challenges into maintainable, high-performance code.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Github Skills (7)
material-design10
3d-graphics10
shader10
graphics-programming10
unity3d10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/Graphics
Nov 2017 - May 2022
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Role in this project:
Graphics/Shader Developer
Graphics/Shader DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 355 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Paul's commits primarily focus on implementing and refining decal rendering features within the Unity graphics repository. Their contributions include the creation of a decal system with support for material properties, enabling the use of color and normal maps, and fixing the UV mapping. Furthermore, the user worked on performance improvements through the implementation of instanced rendering and optimizations within the normal buffer rendering, while ensuring the decal is rendered correctly in both opaque and transparent passes.
renderpost-processingpipelinescriptableunity
sienaiwun/ScriptableRenderPipeline
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Scriptable Render Pipeline
Contributions:57 commits in 3 months
renderpipelinescriptable
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