Debbie Liknes

Graphics Engineer

Graphics engineer with 3+ years of experience

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Experience

Software Engineer 2

Garmin

Cary, NC

Oct 2026 - Present

Core Platform Technologies - Map Rendering

Software Engineer (Real-time Simulation & Graphics)

BGI, LLC

Akron, OH

May 2023 - Sep 2026

Built a particle system for dynamic weather (rain, fog, smoke, clouds)
Migrated from raw Vulkan to Vulkan Scene Graph
Wrote GLSL shaders for real-time damage visualization
Redesigned input system to event-driven architecture, resolving critical reliability issues

Graphics & Rendering

VulkanGLSLUnreal EngineRenderDoc

Languages

C++C#Python

Tools & Others

GitJira3D Math

Featured Projects

Chai

In Development

A C++ game engine with an abstract layer for multiple graphics apis

C++ OpenGL

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Live

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