Pierre Moreau
Senior Software Engineer - Raytracing at NVIDIA
Lund, Sweden
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Top SchoolPierre Moreau is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in real-time photorealistic ray tracing and GPU/driver tooling, with 12 years of experience spanning industry and academia. He holds a PhD in Computer Graphics from Lund and has worked at NVIDIA on raytracing systems after internships and research roles at Unity, Inria, and universities across Europe. Pierre is a prolific open-source contributor to high-profile projects in the Khronos ecosystem (SPIRV-Tools, SPIRV-LLVM-Translator, OpenCL-CTS) and rendering frameworks (Falcor, pbrt), with notable work on SPIR-V linking, OpenCL conformance, and GPU performance/compatibility fixes. His background bridging low-level compiler/driver work and high-level rendering systems gives him a rare cross-stack fluency in shipping performant GPU pipelines. Outside engineering he’s musically inclined (violin, bass) and an avid mountaineer and sailor, reflecting a mix of technical precision and adventurous curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Graphics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Graphics at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Lycée Chateaubriand, RennesMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3D Images & Virtual Reality, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3D Images & Virtual Reality at Université de BordeauxMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université de Rennes IBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, antenne de BretagneMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at École normale supérieure de Rennes
English, French, German, Swedish
Github Skills (25)
spirv10
opencl10
c-language10
3d-graphics10
llvm10
testing10
raytracing10
gpu-programming10
cmake10
compiler-construction10
compile10
cuda10
compiler10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
KhronosGroup/OpenCL-CTS
Mar 2018 - May 2021
The OpenCL Conformance Tests
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:37 commits, 19 PRs, 38 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pierre's contributions primarily involve fixing and improving the OpenCL Conformance Tests. Their work includes fixing compilation errors, adding missing arguments to log error functions, reformatting existing tests, attaching minimum versions to image types and flags, and addressing a local memory size requirement. They also enhanced the testing infrastructure by printing error strings when clFinish fails and checking for extensions only once per test, streamlining the test execution.
conformanceconformance-testsopencl
KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator
Nov 2015 - Feb 2020
A tool and a library for bi-directional translation between SPIR-V and LLVM IR
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 10 PRs, 56 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily worked on enhancing the SPIR-V to LLVM translator tool. Their contributions included fixing issues related to SPIR-V ID handling, adding support for linkage attributes, and fixing the definition of the SPIR-V version. They also refactored the build process and improved the handling of capabilities and name maps within the tool. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to align with LLVM guidelines and contributed to the refactoring of the project.
llvm-irtranslationbi-directionalspir-vllvm
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