Sharif Elcott
Senior Manager, Partner Engineering - Stadia at Google
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSharif Elcott is a senior software leader and graphics specialist with over two decades of experience across video games, VFX, and cloud gaming, currently leading Partner Engineering for Stadia at Google. He combines deep hands-on graphics R&D from roles at Square Enix, Weta Digital, and NVIDIA with large-scale platform and developer-relations experience within Google. Multilingual and experienced managing international engineering teams, he bridges research, production graphics, and partner integration to accelerate real-world game delivery. Educated at Caltech (M.S.) and UCLA (B.S.) in computer science, he has a rare blend of academic rigor and production-proven systems engineering. Notably, his career spans both cutting-edge film/VFX research and pragmatic game-engine shipping, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions for performance and visual fidelity.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (46)
3d-graphics10
rendering10
metal10
android10
opengl-es10
opengl10
gltf9
pbr9
webgl9
linux9
vulkan9
physically-based-rendering9
rendering-engine9
macos8
api-specification8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
selcott/clang
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 10 days
git-repositoryclanghourlyupdatedllvm
bigben0123/chromium.bb
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Chromium source code and modifications
Contributions:3 commits in 3 months
modificationschromiumchrome
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