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Jacob Hamel

@jacobhamel

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Senior WebGL and real-time graphics engineer driving high-performance 3D platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on senior/lead role building scalable, performance-critical WebGL/3D products where I can drive architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver production-grade graphics experiences.

I am a Senior WebGL and real-time graphics engineer with 12+ years building high-performance browser-based 3D visualization platforms and rendering engines. I specialize in GPU programming, shader development, PBR pipelines, and scalable WebGL architectures that deliver photorealistic results within browser constraints.

At Cedreo I owned and evolved a core real-time 3D home design engine, implemented a modular WebGL2 rendering engine, engineered GLSL shaders and instanced rendering frameworks, and introduced LOD, BVH acceleration, and GPU memory management strategies to stabilize 60+ FPS in complex parametric scenes.

I have a proven track record scaling graphics platforms to production, mentoring engineering teams, and collaborating with product, UX, and infrastructure to deliver graphics-first SaaS products. I am passionate about performance optimization, computational geometry, and building developer-friendly, strongly-typed frontends.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Graphics Engineer

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Cedreo

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 2 months)

Owned and evolved a browser-based real-time 3D home design engine, implementing a modular WebGL2 renderer and PBR pipeline that reduced draw calls >65% and stabilized 60+ FPS in dense scenes.

GLSL PBR Pipeline Instanced Rendering Texture Compression (KTX2 Basis)

Senior Frontend & WebGL Developer

Higharc

Jun 2018 - Dec 2021 (3 years 6 months)

Scaled a real-time construction modeling SaaS by building a parametric 3D modeling engine, advanced geometry algorithms, and rendering optimizations that reduced bundle size 50% and improved runtime performance.

WebGL GLSL Frustum Culling React

3D Software Engineer

Cupix

Mar 2016 - May 2018 (2 years 2 months)

Developed a high-performance WebGL point cloud visualization engine with octree-based indexing and asynchronous streaming, improving rendering throughput ~35% for dense spatial datasets.

WebGL Octree Async Scene Streaming

Three.js Developer

Matterport

Jul 2015 - Feb 2016 (7 months)

Contributed Three.js and low-level WebGL enhancements for immersive spatial navigation and panorama-based viewers, optimizing scene graph efficiency and camera interpolation for smoother walkthroughs.

WebGL Cameras Scene Graphs