# Xi (Ma) Chen

> Pen spinner

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

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## Work Experience
### Expert Rendering Engineer @ 31st Union
Jan 2021 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Additional Development @ Striking Distance Studios
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Ramon, California
I developed additionally

### Senior Rendering Engineer @ Sledgehammer Games
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Foster City, California
Graphics research and development on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. PBR post processing effects, screen space reflections, GTAO, translucent materials, skybox pipeline, depth of field effects, physical lens distortion / aberration / vignette, hair shader, height-based falloff for volumetric fog, white balance, pupil dilation ...etc

### Rendering Engineer @ Sledgehammer Games
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Foster City
Rendering engineer, Call of Duty: WWII, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

"This is Band of Brothers as shot and written by a more sober Michael Bay." - Polygon
"Campaign still has bullet-spongey AI"  - Ausgamers
"Unfortunately the Call of Duty: WWII campaign is not up to the task, falling into rote cliches and overly familiar territory." - Polygon

### Systems Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara
Part of the Tegra mobile 3D graphics driver team. I worked on the Nintendo
Switch game console, part of the core graphics team responsible for the
proprietary next-gen NVN graphics API. NVN will be used for first and third party
titles. Also worked on OpenGL/ES conformance during my previous internships.

### Associate Research Engineer @ CSIRO's Data61
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Neville Roach Research Laboratory, Kensington, Sydney
Part-time research assistant on SSRG kernel team working on:
* Virtual Machine Monitor to virtualise Linux on seL4 with Intel VTX
* Redis on seL4, and Redis on CAmkES component architecture on seL4
* RefOS - Reference multi-server OS design and implementation on seL4
* Kitty - RFID vending machine system using RefOS
* Kernel performance micro-benchmarking and optimisations

### Software Engineer (Intern) - Tegra - 3D Graphics @ NVIDIA
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Working on
 * ES31 spec & conformance work on Tegra K1
 * Shader stuff for customer (Xiaomi Mi Pad)
 * Regression server for hw power measurements
 * Cleaning up the GL_OES_EGL_image_external extension
 * An internal ES2 extension
 * Testing coverage improvements
 * General driver bug fixes

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia
SWE Intern on geo-monetization, working on experimentation using location-based search data for asynchronous browse ads on Google Maps.

### Tutor / Consult @ University of New South Wales
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | University of New South Wales
Tutored for COMP3421 Computer Graphics, 3rd year computer science graphics course.
Also consulted for COMP1917, first year entry level computing source at CSE, UNSW.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours 1st Class in Computer Science
UNSW

### James Ruse Agricultural High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xi-ma-chen-b4206949
- Portfolio: http://www.hypernewbie.com
- Portfolio: http://soundcloud.com/hypernewbie
- Portfolio: http://www.juggling-records.com/juggler_page.php?j=00e

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Last updated: 2026-04-10