I build renderers, tools, and the systems behind them. My work spans immediate-mode UI, GPU rendering, and custom engines, with a focus on performance and how things work underneath.
Industry & independent work
A lightweight video editor, with a renderer built for a dense, interactive UI.
In a small team, I work on the core UI and rendering systems for Blick, a cross-platform nonlinear video editor with an immediate-mode interface.
An immediate-mode UI library, developed in a team of four.
My main responsibilities were renderer and platform code. I also took on a team-leading role during the final four months of my work on the project.
One example renderer uses a hash grid to identify changed regions. The stencil buffer and early depth/stencil testing then cull pixel shader invocations in unchanged areas. This lets the application describe the UI again while avoiding unnecessary pixel work.
The practical goal is an immediate-mode interface that makes better use of the GPU and the energy it consumes.
Watch the ARC talk on YouTubeOpens in a new tab
A demo and Q&A by my former ARC teammate Taha Torabpour.
A custom 3D engine exploring dynamic lighting and a painterly visual style.
This is where I experiment with rendering techniques and build the tools to understand their behaviour and performance.
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A pseudo-3D arcade racer made by a team of four in a ten-day game jam.
We coordinated across disciplines under a tight deadline. The renderer creates an arcade-style sense of depth by scaling and moving sprites, in the spirit of games like OutRun.
For placement and tuning, I implemented a small runtime tweak system. It reads the game's source and uses a hash table and a macro to reload selected variable values while the game is running.
A D3D11 implementation guided by NVIDIA's research paper.
My first substantial project with a graphics API and shaders. I implemented the technique to understand probe-based lighting and its trade-offs, including probe placement and handling dynamic objects.
The implementation works, but lacks an acceleration structure and includes naïve shaders. It was a useful starting point for the later voxel-based work.
I also shared this work in Handmade Network's #showcase-projects Discord channel.
Working through the transformation and rasterisation pipeline on the CPU.
Starting from tinyrenderer, I added real-time rendering, a dynamic camera, and a simple clipping method. The project helped me understand the transformation hierarchy, particularly clip space and the canonical viewing volume.
I also shared this work in Handmade Network's #showcase-projects Discord channel.
BVH traversal, multithreading, and a faster path from model files to pixels.
I implemented a bounding volume hierarchy and a single-producer, multiple-consumer threading scheme to work towards interactive rendering.
A custom OBJ loader caches parsed models in a custom format to avoid the cost of reparsing large files. I also removed the C runtime as an exercise in understanding and reducing dependencies.
I'm a programmer based in Stuttgart and a co-founder of Dihedron Software GmbH. My experience combines graphics and platform work in small teams with independent engine development.
I'm interested in work where systems programming, rendering, and performance meet: understanding the workload, choosing useful representations, and making the implementation fit.
I'm open to graphics and systems programming roles, as well as contract work. Reach me by email or on X to talk about a project or an opportunity.