This is the web page of Raph Levien. I am now back at Google, on the Google Fonts team, where my main role is research on GPU font rendering and related technology. I am also very active in the Rust community, including the Xilem family of projects
From 2018-2020 I took a break from full-time work, originally intending to create a game with sound synthesis as a core mechanic, but ultimately becoming far more drawn to the graphics rendering infrastructure needed for such a game, leading to a deep dive into vector graphics rendering on GPU.
Before that, I worked at Google on the Fuchsia team, working on text processing and Rust. Previously, I worked on Android, the Web Fonts team, and before that, on spam in apps. For fun, I tinker with emulating vintage synthesizers. You can find source code and Play Store links on my Android projects page. I used to be maintainer of Ghostscript , and have played a role in a number of other free software projects. I have a number of patents , all of which are available for licensing, and all of which are subj