Wink Barnes

GPU Performance Engineer @ Qualcomm

About

Summary: I'm a Computer Engineer with HW and SW design expertise who is passionate about CPU and 3D graphics/GPGPU architectures. In my spare time, I have written a few prototype video games and puzzle solvers. Tending to be put on special projects at work, I usually wear many metaphorical hats. Expertise: Current Programming - SystemVerilog, Java, C++, C#. Former Programming - VHDL, C, AHK, Assembly (several), Cg/HLSL. As my profile is public, it is intentionally sparse. Please feel free to contact me if you wish to know more.

Country

United States

City

Austin

Industry

Semiconductors

Skill

3D Graphics, SystemVerilog, Java, C++, C#

Experience

GPU Performance Engineer

Qualcomm

2022-6 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

GPU Power and Performance Analysis Architect

Samsung Electronics

2019-2 - 2022-6 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Austin, Texas Area

• Tech lead for workload analysis, trace capture, and key frame selection. • Competitive analysis and projections. • Post-Si debug and minimization. • Started internal graphics newsletter and industry tech discussions forum. Provided graphics knowledge training and tutorials.

Graphics Hardware Engineer

Intel

2012-1 - 2019-1 · 7 yrs 1 mo

Folsom, CA

HW ▪ 3D Graphics Hardware RTL unit design and validation. ▪ Cluster's representative on the coding standards and design methodologies committee. Simulator ▪ Owned and implemented several parts of the functional simulators framework. Tools ▪ Tech lead for a post-process validation tool. ▪ Developed on a 3D test content creation tool. Misc ▪ Main point of contact for new hire 3D training content.

Graduate Intern (Graphics Hardware)

Intel

2010-5 - 2011-8 · 1 yr 4 mos

Folsom, CA

▪ 3D Graphics Hardware RTL unit design and validation ▪ Protoyped new design and validation flows for the team. ▪ Co-lead code reviews for the team. ▪ Gave tech talks on generic 3D and DirectX pipeline functionality.