# Andrei Shpilenok

> Rendering for simulation

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andreishpilenok

Interested in rendering for simulation and programming languages.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zeromatter
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Autopilot Engineer @ Tesla
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Enhancing Tesla’s in-house GPU ray tracer.

### Intern @ Valve corporation
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
• Helped bring Counter-Strike to the Source 2 engine.
• Worked with artists to solve technical roadblocks they encountered.
• Increased bake light fidelity while decreasing render time.

### Teaching Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Teaching assistant for CS 5625, Interactive Computer Graphics.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Cornell Graphics and Vision Lab
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York, United States
• Designed a VR application to intuitively compare various realistic material models.
• Developed this completely from scratch with Vulkan, OpenXR, and Rust.
• Wrote complex shaders that follow physically based rendering.

### Software Engineer Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
• Developed a GPU-accelerated ray tracing system for relative navigation of spacecraft,
decreasing rendering time by over 200x.
• Independently learned Vulkan on the fly.
• Collaborated with my team to integrate my C code with our Python library.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Cornell Capra
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Ithaca, New York, United States
• Built and ran a user study on a geometry based shading language, Gator, creating
interactive web-based computer graphics tutorials.
• Worked on a project demonstrating a system with type-safe heterogeneous bindings.


## Education
### Cornell University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashpil

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Last updated: 2026-04-10