Graphics Engineer — Digital Inking
Developed a cross-platform digital-inking library for Drawboard client applications.
Tasmania, Australia
Graphics engineering, from research to production
I am George Ostrobrod, a Principal Graphics Engineer. I have been building production graphics, imaging, video and GPU-accelerated systems since 2008.
What I do
Visual computing built with product judgement
My work spans graphics architecture, rendering, image and video processing, computational geometry, digital inking, creative tools and XR.
Core stack
Metal · C++ · Swift
Also Objective-C, C, OpenGL, OpenCL, CoreGraphics, Accelerate, RealityKit, ARKit, OpenCV, Eigen and libigl.
Experience
Selected roles
XR Software Engineer
Production iOS and visionOS features for an interactive 3D/XR presentation platform, spanning SwiftUI, RealityKit, ARKit and Metal.
Co-Founder / Technical Lead
Technical direction for a distributed studio focused on graphics, image/video processing and cross-platform mobile products.
Senior Software Engineer
Image effects, texture processing, colour adjustment, rendering post-processing, computational geometry and R&D for Procreate and Procreate Dreams.
Lead Software Engineer
High-performance imaging frameworks for medical, creative and visual-analysis applications, including work for Pixelmator and PicsArt.