Pierric Gimmig
Staff Software Engineer, Autopilot at Tesla
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPierric Gimmig is a Staff Software Engineer at Tesla with nine years of professional experience and a deep background in physics simulation, character animation, and low-level C++ optimization. He brings an electrical engineering foundation and hands-on hardware understanding to complex real-time systems, having shipped console and simulation products at companies like Ubisoft, Warner Bros., Apple, and Google. Pierric’s strengths are in elegant mathematical solutions and performant implementations—examples include real-time suture and fluid sims on GPU and bespoke cloth, ragdoll, and IK systems for major game titles. He excels at bridging algorithmic research and production-grade engineering, with a track record of leading small interdisciplinary teams and owning Havok/PhysX integration and animation pipelines. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines systems-level thinking with a pragmatic focus on shipping robust, highly optimized code for safety- and performance-critical applications.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (86)
json-parser10
memory-efficient10
python10
zero-copy10
instrumentation10
cross-language10
cpp10
javascript10
modular10
sampling10
mmap10
emscripten10
webassembly10
protobuf10
grpc10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pierricgimmig/orbit
May 2020 - Dec 2022
C/C++ Performance Profiler
Contributions:1127 commits, 5 PRs, 1259 pushes in 2 years 7 months
performance
pierricgimmig/setup
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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