Roland Shum
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Shum is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working at Microsoft in Redmond and focused on low-level graphics development (DirectX 12 runtime). He brings a game-development roots from DigiPen and Unity prototyping, combined with practical systems engineering demonstrated by improving CI pipelines and automating coursework grading. His background includes leadership roles—from mentoring hundreds of students and leading resident communities to earning a corporal rank in the Singapore Armed Forces—showing strong conflict mediation and people-management skills alongside technical delivery. Roland’s work blends engine-level programming and developer tooling, and he maintains a public portfolio that demonstrates both graphics work and thoughtful engineering trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at DigiPen Institute of TechnologyDiploma for Digital Entertainment Technology (Games)., Diploma for Digital Entertainment Technology (Games). at Nanyang Polytechnic
English, Chinese
Github Skills (40)
rendering-3d-graphics10
proximity9
deferred-rendering9
direct3d9
api9
api-documentation9
directx9
hlsl9
physically-based-rendering8
sourcemod8
source-engine7
data-structures7
cpp7
steam6
spectator6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ShumWengSang/Perspective-Renderer
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:126 commits, 31 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 3 months
Sunglasses-At-Night/Sunglasses-At-Night.github.io
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 9 months
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