Rahul Sheth
Co-founder And CEO at Texel.ai
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRahul Sheth is a founder and technical leader with 15 years of experience building production-scale graphics and rendering systems, currently leading Texel.ai from Austin. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and spent a decade at Snap architecting the 3D Bitmoji rendering service that still serves hundreds of millions of daily users and renders over a billion images per day. Rahul blends deep graphics and GPU expertise (SVG, video, morph targets) with hands-on DevOps and build-system work—demonstrated by significant contributions integrating the Hunter package manager into large open-source projects like Assimp. He has shipped consumer-facing AR/Web3 products and prototype avatar systems, and also contributes practical tooling and dependency management improvements across graphics ecosystems. Notably, his background spans research internships at Pixar and Google to shipping App Store releases, signaling rare breadth from core research to product delivery.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Rutgers UniversityW23, W23 at Y CombinatorPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (35)
dependency-management10
c-language10
gltf10
package-management10
animation10
data-export10
assimp10
cmake10
3d-models10
automation10
dotnet-core10
imports10
automations10
exports10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Siccity/GLTFUtility
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Simple GLTF importer for Unity
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily contributed to the implementation of GLTF import functionality within a Unity environment. Their work included adding support for morph target animations, fixing blend shape keyframe compression, and addressing legacy animation looping and bone-per-vertex issues. They also exposed extra data functionality and made adjustments to settings and import configurations.
importerimport-and-exportfbxunitygltf
assimp/assimp
May 2019 - Feb 2022
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:31 commits, 9 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily contributed to the project by introducing and refining the Hunter package manager integration, a critical dependency management system for the project. Their work included the creation of a HunterGate file, crucial for incorporating Hunter packages, and subsequent modifications to include paths and adapt the build process to use Hunter. Further contributions involved fixing build issues related to the Hunter integration and adapting code for the new build system.
pythonc-plus-plusobjective-cvolume-renderingfbx-exporter
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