// graphics & engine programmer

Vatsalya Yadav

I build real-time renderers, engine systems and production tools — from Vulkan path tracers and deferred pipelines to multi-viewport nDisplay rendering in Unreal Engine 5.

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Pittsburgh, PA
MS Computer Science · Graphics, DigiPen

Live: 2D lighting from a 1D radial shadow map — move your mouse, click to change colour

01Experience

Game Engineer @ Schell Games
Dec 2025 — Present

Superman Experience · Burbank, CA

Unreal UI and tools, video encoding techniques and scriptable pipelines for a large-format location-based experience.
- Extending nDisplay tooling to support multiple rendering policies, and building Unreal tools for multi-viewport rendering challenges.
- Automating overnight high-resolution render jobs across multiple machines with Jenkins.
- Optimizing a super-high-resolution video rendering pipeline supporting multiple codecs.
- Running output on state-of-the-art projectors via Hive Beeboxes on client hardware.
- Unreal Engine 5
- nDisplay
- Jenkins
- Video Encoding
Graphics Programmer @ RedPill XR
Mar 2025 — Jun 2025

Unannounced XR/VR tech research · Los Angeles, CA

XR/VR, Unreal and networking stack for a seamless Ready Player One-style experience.
- Worked across multiple rendering APIs to achieve low-latency video transfer from a render farm.
- Optimized client-side shaders to display content rendered on a dedicated server.
- XR / VR
- Unreal
- Shaders
- Networking
Junior Programmer @ GodSpeed Games
Jul 2019 — Nov 2020

Krystopia · Shakes on a Plane · The Innsmouth Case · Pune, India

Optimized and ported games to Nintendo Switch using Unity3D and C#.
- Optimized shaders based on metrics from Nintendo's SDK and Unity profiling tools.
- Fixed bugs and memory issues using Switch SDK crash dumps and profiler data.
- Mapped input to Joy-Cons, Pro Controllers and touch screen from mouse & keyboard.
- Unity3D
- C#
- Nintendo Switch
- Profiling

02Projects

Rendering & engine

Shipped games & VR

Solo · 2023 Vulkan

Real-Time Ray Tracing

Hardware-accelerated Monte-Carlo path tracer with history accumulation and denoising.

Shader binding tables and acceleration structures for frame rate.
History tracking via selective weighted bilinear interpolation.
À-Trous wavelet denoising.

C++
Vulkan RT
Path Tracing
Denoising

Solo · 2024 OpenGL

Advanced Rasterization

Custom C/C++ renderer with deferred shading, Moment Shadow Mapping, PBR and Alchemy AO.

Deferred pipeline — ~200% performance gain.
MSM for higher-quality, alias-free soft shadows.
Physically based shading with Alchemy ambient occlusion.

C/C++
Deferred
MSM
PBR
AO

Solo · 2023 OpenGL

Animation Engine

C++ engine focused on skeletal animation and lifelike character movement.

Hermite splines for smooth path-following motion.
Inverse kinematics using the FABRIK algorithm.
Asset import across multiple model formats.

C++
Skeletal Anim
IK / FABRIK
Splines

Team · Tech Lead · 2023–24 Custom

Tiny Titan / DodgeBrawl Engine

Proprietary 3D engine, extended from the 2D engine built for DodgeBrawl.

Premake build scripts and pipeline troubleshooting.
Lua scripting for gameplay without recompiles.
Thread pool for assets, input and logging.
Scope-based profiler and debug visualization tools.

C++
Lua
Premake
Multithreading

03Skills

Rendering APIs

Vulkan
DirectX 11 / 12
OpenGL / ES
Metal 3

Languages

C / C++
C#
Lua
Python

Engines

Unreal Engine 5
Unity3D
Cocos2d-x

GPU & Dev Tools

RenderDoc
Nsight
Visual Studio
Xcode
Rider
Git

Build & Automation

CMake
Premake
GitHub CI/CD
Jenkins
Jira

Math & Physics

3D Math
Quaternions
Spline Curves
Newtonian Dynamics

04Education

M.S. Computer Science — Graphics Concentration

DigiPen Institute of Technology · Redmond, WA

2022 — 2024

B.S. Computer Science & Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University · Belagavi, India

2015 — 2019

05Contact

Open to graphics, engine and tools roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.

vatsalya.yd@gmail.com LinkedIn Résumé (PDF)