Tate Hornbeck
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTate Hornbeck is a Senior Staff Engineer with 14 years of deep graphics systems experience, currently developing OpenGL ES drivers at Qualcomm in Somerville, MA. He built on early-career work at Texas Instruments maintaining PowerVR drivers and implementing GPU DCVS and custom vsync handling, and his research background at Rice University focused on storage-aware paging and workload scheduling for data centers. Tate combines low-level driver expertise with practical systems research, enabling performance-sensitive graphics on embedded platforms. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky hardware-software integration problems and squeezing predictable performance from constrained devices.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Rice University
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Github Skills (17)
nook7
operating-system6
android6
gdbserver6
linux6
debugging6
text-editor6
samsung-galaxy5
samsung4
galaxy4
otter3
kernel3
nexus3
kindle2
amazon2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rcn-ee/ti-proprietary-open
Mar 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:17 commits in 4 months
Unlegacy-Android/android_kernel_ti_omap4
Jun 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:4 commits in 2 years 8 months
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