Jeremy Bridon

Served as a senior software architect for VPG (Vision Products Group), balancing emergency response, prototyping, and performance optimization for current and next-generation products.

• Implemented frame-skipping in the system renderer to improve performance and battery life.
• Built a synthetic image generation tool for visual acuity experiments, future display stack analysis, and leadership demos.
• Implemented a hardware-accelerated video upscaler to improve perceptual image quality with minimal battery impact.
• Shipped Mac Virtual Display, bringing the fovea upscaler into production across the macOS and visionOS network and rendering stacks. Developed smooth curvature transitions, pixel-perfect gaze intersection, and screen session management under tight deadlines.
• Built a shared CAD and 3D-model review prototype for visionOS using Swift and RealityKit. The work covered model hierarchies, synchronizing transforms, networking for local and remote participants, and meeting frame-rate targets. It grew from a prototype into a shipping feature.
• Implemented a scanline coverage function to improve text clarity in Mac Virtual Display.

Founded and led the CoreAnimation in RealityKit team, creating the UI rendering technology for Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing platform.

• Created the initial UI rendering stack for Vision Pro, leading it from prototype to production.
• Ported Apple's existing UI rendering technology (CoreAnimation and CoreGraphics) to the spatial-computing platform.
• Created the "separated layer" feature, allowing 2D UI to pop out as layered 3D content.
• Delivered a perspective-correct text algorithm that became core to the platform’s text quality. Led its adoption in iWork, WebKit, and existing applications.
• Owned UI rendering performance within SoC power limits, reducing simulation and rendering costs by several million cycles per frame.
• Improved video playback embedded in user interfaces and backported the work to support unchanged application codebases.
• Investigated and triaged a high-visibility GPU memory exploit unique to the platform's GPU architecture.
• Designed and delivered key fixes across cross-functional teams, diagnosing issues outside the owned component.
• Led book discussions and recorded technical deep dives into the company's tools and triage data.
• Mentored a dozen new hires and junior engineers across multiple teams.
• Built and deployed a visual debugging tool to record and replay UI interactions and rendered elements.
• Worked on shared memory, interprocess communication, and security hardening.
• Resolved more than 100 bugs per year.

Joined a six-month "tiger team" to resolve critical performance and multithreading issues for the iOS 12 and macOS Mojave releases.

• Investigated multithreading and interprocess communication issues across all Apple platforms.
• Studied kernel scheduler optimizations and profiling tools, then helped teams understand scheduler behavior and rearchitect their threading models.
• Used profiling tools and CPU traces to diagnose issues across many components.
• Cut app launch times by hundreds of milliseconds, improved Messages load time, and worked on the Telephony component's design.

Technical lead for Apple's PDF technology and 2D rendering systems. Responsible for art asset management across multiple platform user interfaces (iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS).

• Moved Apple's PDF renderer to asynchronous GPU rendering, reducing main-thread stalls from hundreds of milliseconds to less than 10 milliseconds and making document scrolling in Preview smoother.
• Authored CoreSVG, the foundation of Apple's SF Symbols icon suite.
• Fuzz-tested 2D graphics components and fixed the security vulnerabilities found.
• Led accessibility feature development under a tight deadline.
• Implemented out-of-process PDF rendering in WebKit.
• Developed 2D rasterization APIs for the CPU and GPU.
• Built the initial continuous integration system for CoreGraphics unit tests.
• Ported the PDF processing and rendering UI framework from macOS to iOS.
• Co-presented Introducing PDFKit on iOS at WWDC 2017.

Developed gameplay and graphics features for EverQuest Landmark and EverQuest Next. Focused on volumetric rendering and MMORPG networking.

• Developed volumetric shaders in HLSL to show voxel-level ownership.
• Built artist tools and gameplay features, including environmental destruction.
• Implemented visual effects for various editing tools.
• Improved achievement and progression systems.
• Developed procedural content placement based on biome, with a database that designers could use to tune generation.

Founded and led multiple software projects, published a technical book, and developed commercial applications across platforms.

• Built TrackAttack, an iPhone app for GPS lap timing, race sessions, and sharing track-day results.
• Self-published 3D Computer Graphics: Software Revealed, a 159-page introduction built around a JavaScript software rasterizer.
• Helped run Reddit’s DailyProgrammer community, wrote challenges, and built the Python automation bot.
• Built WindowSnaps, a small Objective-C macOS window-management utility using the Accessibility API.
• Published oDataiOS, GLUI2, and many smaller open-source experiments.

Computer Science student at Penn State with extensive research in robotics, graphics programming, and competitive programming.

• Axelerate Solutions internship, working with Microsoft engineers: Built an automated Windows Phone testing system that used a robotic arm to mimic human input. Used OpenCV for motion planning and screen-state extraction, then ran test plans autonomously.
• King County property assessment: Built an iPad proof of concept for looking up property records and map layers, entering data in the field, and handling unreliable cellular coverage.
• Networked Robotics Lab at Penn State: Built a Linux GUI with Qt to visualize robot path planning in real time and compare expected paths with real-world motion.
• T-Mobile internship: Built C# and ASP.NET business-intelligence interfaces for analyzing customer-plan database health.
• Penn State Robotics Club: Authored 200+ wiki articles and taught hundreds of students through weekly club classes.
• ACM Competitive Programming: Regional competition winner.
• Wrote a software 3D renderer in Java.