Srinivas Kaza
Research Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSrinivas Kaza is a research software engineer in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience building high-performance graphics, perception, and media systems. He focuses on radiance fields, compression, and computational photography, aiming to enable fast, robust 3D reconstruction for real-world applications. At Google he has worked on Beam and YouTube Live transcoding, bringing research ideas into production-grade video pipelines. His open-source contributions include substantial refactors and WebGL2 modernization to the widely used Cesium 3D globe library, reflecting deep familiarity with graphics architecture and shader tooling. Srinivas combines academic rigor from MIT (BS/MEng Computer Science) with industry experience at NVIDIA and perception startups, often bridging research prototypes and scalable engineering. Colleagues rely on him for systematic code quality improvements and engineering approaches that make complex 3D systems more robust and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
webgl10
resium10
javascript10
glsl10
refactor10
cesiumjs10
3d10
error-handling10
refactoring10
swt6
textfield6
opengl6
compute-shader6
buffer6
canvas6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CesiumGS/cesium
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:338 commits, 14 PRs, 57 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Srinivas primarily focused on refactoring and improving the code quality of the Cesium library. They systematically replaced instances of `DeveloperError` with `Check` methods to enforce more robust error handling and validation. These changes were applied across multiple core files, including `Event.js`, `Color.js`, `Ellipsoid.js`, and `Geometry.js`, suggesting a broad understanding of the library's architecture. Furthermore, the user contributed to the modernization of the shader code, implementing WebGL 2 features and creating layout qualifiers.
3d-globegltfjavascript-librarygeospatial3d-tiles
AnimatedRNG/emacs-config
Jun 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:43 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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