Sakib Saikia
Lead Rendering Programmer at Cloud Chamber
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSakib Saikia is a Lead Rendering Programmer with a decade of hands-on experience optimizing real-time graphics pipelines using C++ and DirectX, currently leading rendering work at Cloud Chamber. He has a strong track record across AAA studios—driving texture streaming for Halo Infinite, upgrading engines from DX9 to DX11, and shipping titles like Rising Storm 2 and Killing Floor 2—often delivering measurable performance wins (e.g., 30–40% rendering improvements). Sakib’s expertise spans shader compilers, render backends, instanced indirect rendering, and precision-focused depth fixes like reverse floating point Z, showing a blend of deep systems knowledge and practical shipping experience. He’s comfortable architecting engine-level solutions, coordinating cross-discipline strike teams, and automating build systems to accelerate iteration. Based in Vancouver, he brings both academic training (MS in Computer Engineering) and a history of platform work from consoles to PC, with a subtle emphasis on squeezing latency and memory headroom out of complex renderers.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology JaipurMS Computer Engineering, MS Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (21)
shader10
hosts10
direct3d10
hlsl10
llvm-clang10
directx10
rendering9
debugging9
vulkan9
graphics-programming9
opengl9
wgsl9
bgfx9
cpp9
clang8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SakibSaikia/CPURayTracer
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:104 commits, 68 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
SakibSaikia/D3D12SampleFramework
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:96 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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