Stefan Eilemann
Technical Lead 3D JSAPI Engine at Esri R&D Center Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Eilemann is a senior software engineer and technical lead with 21+ years of experience delivering high-performance 3D graphics and large-data visualization systems. He currently leads the 3D JSAPI Engine team at Esri Zurich, driving WebGL rendering, terrain, scene layers and visual effects in TypeScript while maintaining deep C++ and GPU expertise. Founder and long-time maintainer of the Equalizer project since 2005, he pioneered middleware for parallel OpenGL applications and has repeatedly scaled graphics across clusters and display walls for industry and research. Stefan has a strong research background (PhD work on parallel rendering), a track record building and mentoring engineering teams at Blue Brain and elsewhere, and hands-on experience across Unix/Windows, Boost, Python and Java. Fluent in German, English and French, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic product delivery and a knack for turning complex distributed graphics problems into deployable engines.
20 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science, Doctor of Science at University of ZurichMaster's degree, Master's degree at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDipl.-Ing. (eq BS), Dipl.-Ing. (eq BS) at Berufsakademie Heidenheim
English, German, French
Github Skills (200)
json-parser10
equalizer10
cmake-modules10
parallel10
memory-efficient10
python10
toolbox10
multithreading10
zero-copy10
avahi10
cross-language10
c9910
gpu10
snappy10
pybind1110
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eile/ZeroBuf
Aug 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:169 pushes, 5 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 4 months
protocol-bufferszerocopybuffersprotobuf
eile/Hello
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
C++/CMake template project
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
templatecppcmakecmake-template
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