Schell Scivally
Core Engineer & Developer Liason at Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL)
Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSchell Scivally is a seasoned Core Engineer and Developer Liaison with over 16 years of hands-on experience and a 20+-year history in software development, now based in Nelson, New Zealand. He blends systems-level Rust expertise with full-stack and performance-focused engineering, having built real-time image editing and edge AI inference applications and authored high-throughput cloud services. An active open-source contributor, Schell has contributed critical Vulkan/SPIR-V and atomic-instruction work to the widely used gfx-rs/wgpu graphics stack, reflecting deep systems and graphics knowledge. He has repeatedly tightened collaboration between AI and engineering teams to accelerate delivery and has a track record of shipping bug-free, high-scale services in production. As an entrepreneur and consultant running his own engineering practice since 2007, he pairs pragmatic architecture with hands-on implementation across Rust, Haskell, Go and cloud platforms. Notably, his interest in "building tiny pieces of the coming mechanocracy" signals a thoughtful, systems-oriented view of automation and infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Rosa Junior CollegePhysics, Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics at Sonoma State University
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Github Skills (19)
spirv10
vulkan10
atomics10
atomic10
rust10
system-design9
webgpu8
opengl8
direct3d7
metal7
xml6
shell6
tmux6
cocoapods6
vim6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
gfx-rs/wgpu
Aug 2021 - Aug 2025
A cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:26 reviews, 14 PRs, 78 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Schell primarily contributed to the `wgpu` repository, focusing on enhancements to the Vulkan and SPIR-V frontends. Their work includes fixing macOS-specific issues in the Vulkan instance creation, adding support for atomic instructions such as `AtomicIIncrement`, `AtomicLoad`, and `AtomicStore`, and implementing `AtomicCompareExchange` in the SPIR-V frontend. They also made adjustments to the types of global variables used by atomic instructions. Their contributions included architectural considerations around how atomics are handled in the Naga IR.
graphicrustwebgpugpumetal
schell/mogwai-template
Dec 2019 - Jun 2025
cargo generate template for mogwai
Contributions:3 PRs, 40 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 7 months
cargo-generatetemplaterustcargomustache
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