Pourya Shirazian
Managing Principal Software Engineer at Intuitive
Atherton, California, United States
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Top SchoolPourya Shirazian is a Managing Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building augmented reality, computer vision, and real-time graphics systems, currently leading R&D at Intuitive in Atherton, CA. He blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—architecting video processing pipelines, rasterization and PBR graphics, and computational photography for medical and embedded applications. His background spans FPGA compiler infrastructure and GPU shader/visualization toolchains, enabling cross-disciplinary optimizations from hardware acceleration to high-level system design. A PhD-trained researcher and former instructor in computer graphics, he routinely translates advanced academic techniques into production-ready imaging and AR features for surgical robotics. Colleagues rely on him to tame performance- and safety-critical constraints while mentoring teams to ship complex systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of VictoriaMSc Computer Systems Architecture, MSc Computer Systems Architecture at Iran University of Science and Technology
English, Persian
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Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GraphicsEmpire/Parsip
Sep 2011 - Jan 2013
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 4 months
pouryashirazian/FemBrain
Jun 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:146 commits in 2 years 3 months
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