Improver

Michael Songy

Sr. Director, Worldwide GeForce Developer Technology at NVIDIA

San Francisco Bay Area

Technical leader with over 25 years of professional product development experience and over 20 shipped video game products on PC, console and mobile platforms.

Specialties:
• Experience building and leading high-performance development teams
• Passion for cutting-edge graphics and simulation, with a track record of innovation
• Extensive knowledge and experience in computer graphics and rendering, from rasterization and image processing to lighting, scene management, animation, content pipeline and authoring tools
• Experience programming “to the metal”, including FPGA hardware design, device drivers and optimization in assembly
• Experience with concurrent programming using various approaches including simple multithreading with locking, actors, jobs & tasks and event-based models
• Experience with parallel programming, including stream and data parallel computing
• Experience developing distributed systems, including service oriented web application and web service development
• Experience with network programming, scalable server development and client/server architecture
• Passion for learning and working with new programming languages and tools

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Experience:

• Sr. Manager, GeForce Developer Technology (NVIDIA)
• CEO (Pyramind Labs, LLC)
• Sr. Software Engineer (Electronic Arts)
• Sr. Engineer, GeForce Developer Technology (NVIDIA)
• Sr. Director, Worldwide GeForce Developer Technology (NVIDIA)
• CTO (Pixel Mine, Inc.)
• Director, GeForce Developer Technology (NVIDIA)
• Sr. Software Engineer (Trion World Network, Inc.)

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