# Minyoung Son

> Principal Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/minyoungson

Graphics driver (OpenGLES, Vulkan, KMD), Android Gralloc, RTOS, and OpenCL scheduler

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) and Advanced Computing Lab (ACL)
Jan 2022 – Present | United States
GPU SW Arch tem lead

### Principal Engineer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea

### Staff Engineer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, United States
Shader performance analysis for mobile GPU on Android
GPU System SW devleopment as a Technical Lead
Android GPU bringup on emulation platform and silicon
Samsung Android Gralloc design and development for Samsung Exynos
GPU Performance optimization - benchmark tunning and CPU overhead reduction for mobile games
GPU Image comression support for AHB

### Senior Software Engineer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Mobile GPU Vulkan 1.0/1.1 driver development – Pipeline, Image, Buffer, Memory, and compiler interface
Thread-safe GPU driver design for Vulkan API
Mobile GPU driver performance analysis with IFH (Infinite Fast Hardware) mode development

### Senior R&D Staff @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Mobile GPU OpenGL ES 3.0/3.1/EGL1.4 driver development
Khronos Vulkan API 1.0 Specification as a Vulkan working group contributor
GPU Resource Manager design and development for OpenGLES, Vulkan, OpenCL, and EGL
Mobile GPU verification with application (Android Top Games)
Mobile GPU OpenGL ES 2.0 driver development from scratch

### R&D Staff @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 | Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Shader code optimization for CGRA (Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture)-based DSP systems
OpenCL 1.0 framework development on multi-CGRA system as a technical lead
Parallel processing support on Samsung Multi-platform Kernel (SMK) RTOS (Real-time Operating System)
Multi-tasking FTL (Flash translation layer) research for SSD (Solid State Disk)


## Education
### Master's degree in Programming languages
Pohang University of Science and Technology

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Inha University 인하대학교


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/minyoung-son-80276a91

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Last updated: 2026-04-12