About David Marks

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Career Overview

David Marks is a Quality Engineering Leader with nearly three decades of technical experience ensuring graphics platforms deliver robust, reliable experiences at pioneering companies including NVIDIA, Imagination Technologies, and Autodesk. He specializes in systems-level quality thinking - triaging complex failures, identifying edge cases at subsystem boundaries, and coordinating quality across multiple engineering teams. His proven track record includes building beta programs serving hundreds of technical users, validating GPU-accelerated rendering systems, and orchestrating platform quality across six products spanning three organizational divisions.

Quality Engineering Approach

David excels at being the technical conduit between users experiencing problems and engineers solving them. He brings deep expertise in graphics platforms, real-time rendering, GPU acceleration, and spatial computing technologies - from pioneering digital twin manufacturing simulations in the 1990s through modern platforms built on OpenUSD, MaterialX, and Hydra. His systematic approach combines technical depth with user-centric quality advocacy, whether validating ray tracing acceleration hardware, testing rendering APIs, or coordinating cross-functional quality strategies across global engineering teams.

Current Focus

David is actively seeking Quality Engineering and Test Engineering opportunities where he can apply his unique combination of graphics expertise, systems thinking, and cross-functional coordination. His technical foundation spans rendering pipelines, GPU technologies, and spatial computing platforms - exactly the domains powering today's innovations in XR, computer vision, and AI-powered content creation. He stays current with emerging technologies through active participation in the graphics community, including 18 SIGGRAPH conferences since 1994.

Available for: Full-time employment and contract/consulting opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area or remotely.

Contact email: david (dot) marks (at) dodo-cat (dot) com

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David enjoys cinema, photography, gourmet cooking, competitive bowling, playing piano and synthesizers, live concerts and theater, Japanese Taiko drumming, Stoic philosophy, collecting special-edition books, reading, gaming, restoring and preserving vintage pinball and arcade machines, being a Maker, and traveling with wife, daughters, and grandson.