Varun Ramakrishnan
Software Engineer II at PlayStation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Ramakrishnan is a Software Engineer II based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building high-performance, security-focused SDKs and off-console systems for PlayStation. He combines a strong academic background in computer graphics from Purdue with hands-on game development and simulation work, bringing a gamer’s eye for performance and a developer’s rigor for secure, observable platforms. At PlayStation he leads technical design and requirements for security modules, authors architecture for cross-platform features, and enhances SDK observability through advanced logging and tracing. Outside work he channels his creativity into photography and cinema, which informs a thoughtful approach to user experience and visual fidelity in games. Ambitious about game development, he’s gradually turning that aspiration into product-facing engineering impact within a large consumer platform.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Graphics, Master of Science - MS, Computer Graphics at Purdue University - Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral ScholarsBachelor’s Degree, Computer Graphics - Game Development, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Graphics - Game Development at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School
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Github Skills (16)
amazon-web-services6
opengl6
glsl6
shader6
matrix6
tessellation6
transpose6
smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics4
particle3
rendering2
hydrodynamics2
simulation2
isometric1
cpp1
game-engine1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VarunRamakri7/CoupledWaterAnimation
Aug 2022 - Apr 2023
A project to showcase Water Animation using Coupled SPH and Wave Equations
Contributions:6 PRs, 212 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
compute-shadersfluid-animationsmoothed-particle-hydrodynamicstesselation-shadertessellation
VarunRamakri7/Unity_Engine
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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