Shawn Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building firmware, embedded systems, and tools in C/C++, Python, and Rust, currently driving UEFI bootloader bring-up and factory automation at Snap. He has shipped low-level graphics and driver work—contributing Metal backend improvements and push-constant translation to the gfx-rs project—and previously developed OpenCL drivers for Snapdragon at Qualcomm. His background spans mission-critical aerospace flight software and CubeSat leadership, reflecting a discipline for reliability and rigorous testing. A pragmatist who favors simplicity, he pairs deep systems expertise with performance profiling and custom tooling to squeeze latency and memory overhead out of real hardware. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he quietly blends open-source contributions with production engineering across both space-grade and consumer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, 3.97, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, 3.97 at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.69, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.69 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Github Skills (9)
metal10
vulkan10
rust10
gpu10
opengl10
graphic10
gfx9
dx8
directx8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gfx-rs/gfx
Aug 2018 - May 2019
[maintenance mode] A low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API for Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 38 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shawn focused on improving the Metal backend for the gfx-rs/gfx repository. They made significant changes to the metal pixel format and feature set support by updating conversions and format mapping. They also worked on revamping depth buffer logic and implementing push constant translation in the OpenGL backend. Additionally, they made general code cleanup and refactoring changes.
apimetalmaintenance-modegpurust
Thomspoon/procedural_terrain_generation
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
A simple terrain generator using Rust and OpenGL
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
terrain-generatorperlin-noiserustprocedural-generationopengl
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