Jeremy Bridon

Serving as a senior software architect for VPG (Vision Products Group), balancing emergency response, prototyping, and performance optimization for current and next-generation products.

• Implemented novel frame-skipping for system renderer to improve performance and battery life.
• Created tool for synthetic image generation for visual acuity experiments, future display stack analysis, and leadership demos.
• Implemented hardware-accelerated video upscaler for improved user-perceived quality with minimal battery impact.
• Shipped Mac Virtual Display. Productized fovea upscaler across macOS and visionOS network & rendering stacks. Developed smooth curvature transitions, pixel-perfect gaze intersection, and screen session management under tight deadlines.
• Authored a multi-user (remote & local) co-presence CAD review application in visionOS. Used by Product Designers, Industrial Designers, and Human Interface Designers to review and improve future products.
• Implemented a novel scanline coverage function to improve text rendering / acuity when using Mac Virtual Display.

Founded and led the CoreAnimation in RealityKit team, creating the UI rendering technology for Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing platform.

• Created the initial UI rendering stack for Vision Pro, leading it from prototype to production.
• Ported Apple's existing UI rendering technology (CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics) to spatial compute platform.
• Created "separated layer" feature, allowing 2D UI to pop-out and be presented as 3D layered content.
• Delivered Perspective-Correct Text algorithm, delivering platform defining text rendering quality. Led adoption across highly technically challenging components: iWorks, WebKit, existing published public applications.
• Direct Responsible Individual for improving UI rendering performance to fit within SoC power limits. Reduced several megacycles per simulation and rendering frames.
• Created a novel approach at improving video playback embedded within user interfaces; back-ported to support unchanged application code bases.
• Investigated and triaged high-visibility GPU memory exploit unique to platform's GPU architecture.
• Designed and delivered key fixes across cross-functional teams, diagnosing issues outside the owned component.
• Supported continuous education by leading book discussions and recording technical deep dives into company's tools and triage data.
• Mentored a dozen new hires and junior engineers across multiple teams.
• Created and deployed high-impact visual debugging tool that records and plays back all interactions and rendered elements on platform.
• Developed deep expertise in shared memory, multi-process communication, security hardening
• Resolved over 100+ bugs per year; top three contributor to RealityKit code changes per year.

Joined 6-month "tiger team" effort at resolving critical performance and multi-threading issues for iOS 12 and macOS Mojave releases.

• Became deep expert in multi-threading and multi-process communication on Apple platforms.
• Learned kernel-level scheduler optimizations and profiling tools.
• Extensive work with profiling tool and CPU tracing of many components across the company.
• Improved app launch speeds by 100s of milliseconds, Messages app load time, Telephony component design.

Technical lead for Apple's PDF technology and 2D rendering systems. Responsible for art asset management across multiple platform user interfaces (iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS).

• Updated Apple's PDF rendering technology to benefit from async GPU rendering. Scrolling documents in Preview no longer stuttering and blocking main thread; stalls reduced from 100s of milliseconds to less than 10 milliseconds.
• Authored CoreSVG - foundation of Apple's SF Symbols icon suite.
• Fuzzed various 2D graphics technology components for security; guarded and fixed identified exploits.
• Led accessibility features under intense deadline.
• Out-of-process rendering implementation for WebKit.
• 2D rasterization API development for CPU and GPU.
• Built Continuous Integration system for CoreGraphics for initial unit-testing support.
• Ported PDF processing & rendering UI framework from macOS to iOS.
• WWDC 2017 Speaker

Developed gameplay and graphics features for EverQuest Landmark and EverQuest Next. Focused on volumetric rendering and MMORPG networking.

• Volumetric shaders development in HLSL to visually attribute voxel-level ownership.
• Artist authoring tools and gameplay features, including environmental destruction.
• Implemented visual effects for various editing tools.
• Improved achievement and progression systems.
• Developed procedural placement of content as function of biome; authored database for designers to tweak and improve generation.

Founded and led multiple software projects, published technical book, and developed commercial applications across platforms.

• Authored TrackAttack iPhone App - Enterprise race tracking application.
• Self-published "3D Computer Graphics: Software Revealed" (159 pages, Amazon).
• Daily Programmer - Community management for thousands of programmers on Reddit.
• WindowSnaps - macOS window management extension.
• GLUI2 - open-source graphical user-interface library for OpenGL.
• Multiple open-source projects and libraries.

Computer Science student at Penn State with extensive research in robotics, graphics programming, and competitive programming.

• Axelerate Solutions/Microsoft: Built an automated testing platform to test two Windows Phone's interactions by mimicking human input using a robotic arm. Use OpenCV to plan robotic arm movement, along with screen information extraction. Built test plans that would execute autonomously.
• King County Land-Value Assessment Mobile Application: Wrote a working MVP application targeting the iPad 1 and 2 for tax / revenue purposes for county government. Designed for in-field use. Developed features that connected to cloud-service. Targeted iOS 4.1+
• Networked Robotics Lab @ Pennsylvania State University: Created Linux GUI application that would show robots path planning, in real-time, and visualize expected vs. real-world paths.
• T-Mobile Internship: Business Intelligence web interfaces. Created C# ASP.net frontend to analyze customer plan database health.
• Penn State Robotics Club: Authored 200+ wiki articles, trained 100s of students through weekly club classes.
• ACM Competitive Programming: Regional competition winner.
• Software 3D Renderer authored in Java.