About

Ram Kappagantula is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer 2 currently working at Amazon Game Tech. With over 7 years of relevant experience, he is a software engineer who is passionate about bridging the gap between art and technology. His areas of interest include computer graphics and animation, and he is always up for a challenge and loves to solve new problems. At Amazon Game Tech, Ram is the lead developer of the Prefab system in the O3DE engine. He has contributed to the design and development of a JSON-based Prefab system for Open3D Engine, an open-source AAA game engine. He has implemented core prefab APIs such as loading, saving, overriding, propagation, serialization, and deserialization. He has also integrated prefabs with a Qt-based editor by supporting CRUD operations along with duplication and detach workflows. Ram has led the design and implementation of several optimization passes on the system, such as selective deserialization and smart patch generation, which have improved the performance of editor operations by 10 times. He has also designed a prefix tree-backed patching system to author and manage overrides on prefabs. Prior to his current role, Ram has worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Purdue University, where he assisted students in developing web applications using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and PHP. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University and a B.E(Hons.) in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani-Hyderabad Campus. Ram's tech stack includes software engineering, Python, and Spring. He is a highly motivated and skilled software engineer who is always eager to learn and take on new challenges.