Stephen White
Senior Software Developer at Google
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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RockstarStephen White is a senior software developer based in Laval, Quebec with 16 years of professional experience and a continuous tenure at Google since 2007. He brings deep systems and graphics expertise, evidenced by substantial back-end contributions to the widely used ANGLE project—adding Metal support, optimizing shader compilation, image handling, and improving readPixels performance. Previously a technical leader at Autodesk and early-career developer at Discreet Logic and InContext Systems, he combines production-grade engineering with cross-platform graphics know-how. Known for tackling low-level performance and platform portability challenges, he blends long-term product ownership with hands-on optimization work that benefits large-scale client and cross-platform rendering.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
compiler10
c-language10
opengl-es10
direct3d10
shader10
cprogramming-language10
shaderc10
compilation10
compile10
image-processing9
vulkan8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google/angle
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
A conformant OpenGL ES implementation for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the core functionality of the ANGLE project, focusing on improving the OpenGL ES implementation. Their work involved adding support for new platforms and features such as Metal, as well as optimizing the rendering pipeline. These changes included modifications to shader compilation and image handling, specifically addressing areas like SSBO and image load/store. In addition to this, the user also made improvements to improve the performance of readPixels().
androidioslinuxopengl-eswindows
SenorBlanco/gpuweb
Oct 2023 - Jun 2026
Where the GPU for the Web work happens!
Contributions:156 pushes, 41 branches in 2 years 8 months
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