Samuel Mcfadden
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Mcfadden is a founder, software engineer, and technical artist with nine years of experience blending computer graphics, virtual reality, and AI-driven software. He built production graphics tooling at Pixar (credits on Luca and Lightyear) and shipped generative-design features for Microsoft Designer before founding vid2scene.com, a web platform that converts ordinary videos into explorable 3D environments using Gaussian Splatting and recent research. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a UIUC CS alum, he moves fluidly between research-driven graphics techniques and production-grade product engineering. Samuel’s work surfaces at the intersection of art and engineering: he creates tools artists love while scaling systems used by thousands of users worldwide.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (18)
geometry10
colmap10
computer-vision10
structure-from-motion10
cuda8
nvidia8
voxel5
django4
boilerplate3
webgl3
diffusion-models3
cmake2
rendering2
intrinsics2
opengl2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shaffer1/LiDARSim
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
samuelm2/Samupath
Mar 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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