Summary
Hector Arellano is a Senior Graphics Developer with over a decade of experience crafting high-fidelity real-time visuals and engine architecture for the web and native graphics APIs. He progressed from creative coding in Macromedia Flash to pioneering WebGL and WebGPU workflows—transpiling GLSL to WGSL and implementing advanced techniques like GPU physics, raytracing, indirect lighting and distance fields. Hector has led R&D and production at agencies and studios (Active Theory, Firstborn) delivering interactive experiences for clients such as Spotify, WSJ, Dior and Louis Vuitton, while mentoring teams and shaping engineering culture. Now based in Spain, he combines a platform-agnostic engineering mindset with design-rooted training in industrial and product design to simplify visual complexity. Notably, he has integrated WebGPU into custom frameworks and implemented analytic shader optimizations that improved performance across legacy and modern pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Simón Bolívar
Universitat Politècnica de València
English, Spanish