I'm Alain Galvan (pronounced Alan Galvan)
AMD · Orlando
Driver Engineer
West Palm Beach
Remote
Professionally I focus on real time rendering with ray tracing or raster/compute techniques, high performance heterogeneous computing with GPUs, cross-platform rendering, building plugin runtimes and compilers. I have a deep passion for computer graphics, be it research in ray tracing and real time rendering, designing libraries and tools to help solve challenging rendering problems, or teaching through interactive articles.
To truly understand the world, I believe in being humbly curious, independent and connected, understanding the village of current and past giants that make us who we are, and the power of dialectic critique. Let's connect:
AMD Radeon Technologies Group
November 15, 2021 to Present · 3 years
Orlando, Florida, United States · Remote
Worked on AMD's DirectX Ray Tracing driver team, analyzing and improving the performance of individual game titles, improving ray tracing performance, fixing platform specific issues, and fixing driver releases.
Marmoset
June 19, 2017 to November 12, 2021 · 4 years
Ames, Iowa, United States · Remote
Worked on Marmoset Toolbag 4 and 3, a C++ 3D real-time ray tracing rendering, animation, and baking suite, providing artists a powerful and efficient workflow for all stages of production.
FIU Natural User Interface Laboratory
June 16, 2014 to June 16, 2017 · 3 years
Miami, Florida, United States
Published and contributed to several papers focused on 3D user interaction and computer graphics for symposiums such as IEEE VR, 3DUI.
FIU School of Computing and Information Science
August 20, 2012 to December 9, 2016 · 4 years
Miami, Florida, United States · Remote
Participated in MLH programming competitions and learned to love traveling to symposiums and universities.
A lot of people from students to engineers and professors ✨ inspire me, in no particular order: Alan Wolfe, Francisco R. Ortega, Bartosz Ciechanowski, Yining Karl Li, Benedikt Bitterli, Nate Morrical, Omar Shehata. In addition, I put a few in this blog post and maintain Twitter list of folks.
My hobbies include: digital painting, pixel art, 3D modeling, piano, guitar, bass guitar, violin, photography, coffee, cooking, quantitative trading, PC games, films, concerts.
In no particular order:
Game Engine Architecture
By Jason Gregory
Physically Based Rendering
By Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys
Real Time Rendering
By Tomas Akenine-Möller et al.
The Graphics Codex
By Morgan McGuire
Ray Tracing Gems Series
By Eric Hanes, et al.
Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics
By Philip J. Schneider, David H. Eberly
Ray Tracing in One Weekend
By Peter Shirley et al.
The Rust Programming Language
By Steve Klabnik et al.
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 5th Edition
By Steve Marschner and Peter Shirley
The GPU Gems Series
By many authors
Deep Learning
By Ian Goodfellow et al.
Thanks for Reading!