Preston Hamlin
Senior Software Development Engineer at AMD
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Hamlin is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in low-level C/C++ driver and runtime development for Direct3D 12 at AMD. He focuses on highly parallel algorithms and GPGPU programming, bringing hands-on expertise in CUDA, multithreading, and stochastic simulation techniques like Monte Carlo and Brownian Motion. His background includes research-oriented internships at NIST and teaching roles across computer architecture, operating systems, and theoretical CS, reflecting both practical and academic depth. Comfortable with kernel and device driver concepts, he prefers performance-sensitive systems over web or full‑stack work and is continually expanding into functional languages and graphics frameworks. Fluent in English and studying German and Japanese, he also has experience mentoring and public speaking through multiple TA positions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Florida State University
English, German
Github Skills (20)
shader10
hosts10
wgsl10
hlsl10
bgfx10
cpp10
directx10
llvm-clang10
llvm9
clang9
compiler8
react2
graphics-programming2
probot1
typescript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PrestonHamlin/Shade
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Graphics programming experimentation.
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
graphics-programmingexperimentationgraphics
PrestonHamlin/DirectXShaderCompiler
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
This repo hosts the source for the DirectX Shader Compiler which is based on LLVM/Clang.
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
compilerscppdirectx-shader-compilerclanghosts
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