Wolfgang Engel - CEO And Co-Founder at Tellusim

Wolfgang Engel

CEO And Co-Founder at Tellusim

Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States

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Wolfgang Engel is a veteran graphics engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded and leads The Forge Interactive, a think-tank and services studio that drives real-time rendering for AAA games and film productions and maintains the widely used open-source The Forge rendering framework. With over a decade of hands-on experience shipping effects, tools and middleware across major franchises (from Tomb Raider and Battlefield to Hades and Call of Duty), he combines deep engine-level expertise across consoles and PC with leadership in cross-timezone, technically complex projects. He founded and edited the influential ShaderX and GPU Pro book series, is a Microsoft MVP, a frequent GDC contributor and has served as a testifying expert in game-engine IP litigation. Beyond product work he builds reusable graphics middleware (Ephemeris, Aura, PixelPuzzle), advises startups, and actively shapes industry standards—while also being an unusually disciplined martial-arts master, bringing a rare blend of technical rigor and mentorship to teams.

11 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

2 Law, 2 Law at Landgericht Mosbach

Programmer C Programming, Programmer C Programming at DAAD

1. Law, 1. Law at University of Mannheim

English, German

Github Skills (18)

bash10

cicd10

script10

build-automation10

python9

compiler8

shader8

compile8

android8

windows8

shaderc8

compilation8

ios7

linux7

metal7

Programming languages (2)

C++C

Github contributions (5)

ConfettiFX/The-Forge

Oct 2017 - Oct 2022

The Forge Cross-Platform Rendering Framework PC Windows, Steamdeck (native), Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, PS5, Switch, Quest 2

Role in this project:

Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer

Contributions:245 commits, 92 PRs, 269 pushes in 5 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Wolfgang's contributions primarily involve updating build scripts and integrating external tools like `wget` and `7z` for asset retrieval and extraction. They also modified build configurations for different platforms (Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS/iOS). Furthermore, the user adapted the build system to skip DX11 builds and incorporated a shader compiler and testing preprocessor configurations.

metalvulkanps5vulkan-apiios-android

wolfgangfengel/graphicsdemoskeleton

May 2015 - May 2016

Contributions:51 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months

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