Selected work, 2007 to present.
Khronos Group, 2023–Present, contract
Tech Lead of the ~3M-line suite GPU vendors must pass to certify their drivers; 15 organizations have certified Vulkan drivers with it. 284 contributors and ~1,400 commits a year.
GameBench, 2020–2026, contract
Rust-based tools that AAA studios use to test and QA graphics, telephony, radio, power, and compute performance on Android and iOS.
GMI, 2020–2023
Principal engineer on software and firmware for laser-cutting machines driven by computer vision, used by fashion and leather brands.
Virtual Arts, 2017–2020
Built from scratch on Vulkan and Metal: PBR, skeletal animation, particles, spatial audio, ARKit and ARCore. Shipped four iOS titles, including Lightstream Racer, which Apple called "really clever" when it picked Virtual Arts as one of five rising European game studios on the App Store.
Lightstream Racer on the App Store →Apple's rising stars story →
ARM, 2016–2017
Product Manager in charge of the first release of developer.arm.com. Before it, ARM's information for developers was spread across more than 15 websites. Today the site's search covers more than 280,000 pages and documents.
ARM, 2014–2017
Product manager for ARM's Mali GPU and CPU performance analysis and debugging tools: Graphics Debugger, Streamline, offline shader compiler, texture tool. Presented at GDC, Google I/O, and Nordic Game.
ARM, 2011–2014
Major contributor to the Mali Graphics Debugger and Mali support in DS-5 Streamline. Contributed to the OpenGL ES Emulator, Texture Compression Tool, and Mali Offline Shader Compiler.
SISSA, 2010–2011, contract
Computer vision engineer in neurobiology. Built software PhDs used for automatic tracking and visual detection of microscopic neuron structures in bright-field images.
Glance Vision Technologies, 2010–2011, contract
Built computer vision-driven recognition of vial labels under strong non-affine deformations. Prototyped in Matlab, coded in C++ with OpenCV, optimized with profilers, and parallelized with OpenMP.
University of Trieste, 2011
Finalist, Best Application Paper Award, IEEE CASE 2011. With Felice Andrea Pellegrino: recursive monomial feature elimination and a cascade of SVMs that cut classifier compute time by up to 1000x, applied to hand detection.
Synaps Technology, 2008–2011, contract
Software engineer on a team of 10 building a mobile phone on embedded Linux for ARM11. Coded in C++ with Qt4, building the calculator, image gallery, contact book, maps, and other shared components.
University of Trieste, 2007
Built a voice-controlled robot on an ARM11 board. Built a real-time, Debian-based embedded Linux distribution for ARM9 with RTAI, and wrote kernel modules driving motors and ultrasonic sensors in parallel.
Lorenzo Dal Col