Senthuran Uthayakumar
Senior GPU Software Architect at Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd
Slough, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSenthuran Uthayakumar is a Senior GPU Software Architect with a decade of hands-on experience in CPU/GPU systems, 3D graphics, and real-time rendering, currently leading GPU software efforts at Huawei R&D in the UK. He has a strong C/C++ and Python background and deep practical knowledge of Vulkan and OpenGL ES from roles at Imagination Technologies, Sports Interactive, and Huawei, including ownership of GPU microbenchmarking projects. Beyond shipping engines and drivers, he contributes to cross-platform graphics tooling and documentation—helping maintain a C++ Native_SDK used to accelerate Vulkan/OpenGL ES development across platforms. Based in Slough and trained at Brunel University, he combines low-level performance tuning with developer-facing deliverables, making complex GPU behavior accessible to engineers.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Brunel University of London
Tamil, English
Github Skills (5)
documentation10
cmake9
build-system8
vulkan7
opengl-es7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
powervr-graphics/Native_SDK
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK. Includes demos & helper code (resource loading etc.) to speed up development of Vulkan, OpenGL ES 2.0 & 3.x applications
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Senthuran primarily contributed to the project by updating documentation. This included modifying the `README.rst` files to update links and add descriptions. Additional documentation updates included adding build instructions and API documentation. Further contributions involved updating the SDK browser documentation and adding examples and build instructions for multiple platforms.
cppspeedopengl-esvulkanlinux
senthuran-ukr/rpi4-vk-driver
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Raspberry Pi Vulkan Driver (Broadcom Videocore VI)
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 months
raspberry-pidriversd-cardvulkanbroadcom
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