Riko Ophorst
Rendering & Software Engineer
4+ years professional experience (incl. internships) Started working professionally in Sep 2018, including my initial internship at OTOY. Does not include internships from before that date.
C++, C, HLSL, GLSL, MSL, SPIRV
Vulkan, Metal, D3D11/12, CUDA, CMake, RTX, Windows, macOS, Linux
Raytracing & pathtracing
Realtime 3D rendering
R&D in Emerging Technologies
Cross-platform & porting
GPU & CPU optimizations
2 shipped products
4 shipped games
5 game jams
Creative Media & Game Technologies (BSc, July 2019)
At Breda University in the Netherlands
About me
  • Mobile
  • HTML5 game development
  • Graphics
  • Engines
  • C++
  • Web
  • PC
Who is Riko Ophorst?
I am Riko Ophorst. I am a programmer by day and a gamer by night. Okay, maybe sometimes a Formula 1 fan as well.

Born in Waalwijk, The Netherlands, I was always a gamer. I am hugely passionate about games and the technology that enables games to exist. I had my first experience with programming back when I was around 11 or 12 years old. I wanted to make a text-based game like one I was playing at the time. After hours, days, weeks, months I finally got some things working. I was so proud, so happy - I had made something on a computer! It was then that I knew I wanted to be a programmer, someone who makes things.

I have completed my first college degree in "Media and Application development" from SiNTLUCAS Eindhoven, where I studied from September 2012 through July 2015. Normally, it would've been a 4 year programme, but I managed to skip a full study year, allowing me to finish my first degree on July 2015. Right after finishing that degree, I wanted more.

As of September 2015, I started a new study. This time at the NHTV Breda, studying International Game Architecture and Design (IGAD), where I will be getting a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I finished my first year (propeadeutic-phase) with a 3.25 GPA.

In my spare time I like to follow the Formula 1. When I was younger I used to have my own go-kart, which I would take to a race track every couple of weeks. I loved racing around, but it got a bit expensive and I decided to stop karting and do the simple thing: follow the Formula 1. I love F1, it's amazing seeing all the cars race around the track, seeing which driver is better than the other. Racing, in general, is just awesome.

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