Rafael Sabino
Graphics Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Sabino is a graphics engineer with eight years of experience crafting high-fidelity visuals across games and consumer media, recently shaping rendering and performance for XDefiant at Ubisoft. He has deep expertise in graphics pipelines and platform-specific optimization, with prior contributions to Dolby Vision that earned credits on titles like Halo Infinite and Godfall. Rafael has worked across pre-silicon AR workloads and PlayStation partner support, demonstrating a rare blend of low-level hardware-aware coding and practical tooling for developers. Early career roles in automated QA and tooling at EA reveal a habit of turning repetitive problems into reliable, automated systems that accelerate shipping. Based in Oakland, he combines research-driven technique exploration with a product-focused mindset to ensure visual features meet both creative and performance targets.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Interactive Entertainment, Master's degree Interactive Entertainment at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (16)
cg9
shader9
raytracing8
voxel8
graphic7
cpp7
renderer7
vulkan6
opengl6
glsl6
moltenvk5
tvos4
ios4
dsa4
macos3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phonowiz/vulkan-demos
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Learning test bed for all things vulkan
Contributions:403 commits, 14 PRs, 269 pushes in 3 years 1 month
vulkan
phonowiz/voxel-cone-tracing
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
A real-time global illumination implementation using voxel cone tracing. Implemented in C++, GLSL, and OpenGL 4.1
Contributions:121 commits, 2 PRs, 92 pushes in 2 years 1 month
cppglslopenglvoxel
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