Waleed Gazia
Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm
Cork, Ireland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolWaleed Gazia is a Staff C++ software engineer based in Cork with nine years of experience building GPU drivers, rendering engines, and real-time graphics tools across AR/VR, medical imaging, and gaming domains. He currently drives DirectX 12 GPU software and tooling at Qualcomm, bringing deep expertise in performance, power optimization, pre/post-silicon hardware support, and low-level debugging. His background as a technical artist and VR developer informs a rare blend of artistic sensibility and systems-level engineering, enabling practical tooling like rendering squads’ engines and Maya automation plugins. Comfortable across OpenGL, D3D11, GLSL/HLSL, Qt/QML and modern CMake workflows, he has led cross-functional teams to ship visualization and UI subsystems for complex applications. He often bridges product and partner needs, collaborating with OEMs and game developers to ensure real-world integration and high-quality graphics behavior.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science & control engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & control engineering at Mansoura UniversityNanodegree VR Development, Nanodegree VR Development at Udacity
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
645reputation
89kreached
12answers
0questions
unity-game-engine
top-5%
Github Skills (28)
unity-game-engine9
qml-applications8
rasterizer8
spawning6
pointer6
gameobject6
user-interface6
augmented-reality6
cpp5
filtering4
automation3
qml3
cli3
qtquick3
cross-platform2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WaleedYaser/rex
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
3D software rasterizer using C/ C++
Contributions:118 commits, 4 PRs, 95 pushes in 2 months
cpprasterizer
WaleedYaser/Puzzler-VR
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 5 pushes in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.