My name is Ryan Geiss. I grew up in Ohio, where I attended the Ohio State University. I graduated in the year 2000 with a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering. I then moved to Northern California to work in the field of graphics programming.

Most of my work, to date, has been focused on generating cutting-edge computer graphics & music visualizations. Currently, I work for Microsoft, primarily on skeletal tracking for Project Natal.

Before Microsoft, I worked at NVIDIA (August 2003 to April 2007), makers of those ridiculously fast 3D graphics chips. While there, I wrote demos and special effects that showed off the cutting-edge technology in our chips. Check out Cascades (requires a GeForce 8000 series and Vista) and GeoForms (requires GeForce 7000 series).

Before Nvidia, I worked for NullSoft, makers of the fast & efficient Winamp music player. I had an R&D position. Check out some of the fun music visualizers I wrote while working there: MilkDrop, Geiss 2, Monkey, and Smoke. If you want to write your own audio visualization plug-ins (using C/C++ and DirectX 8), check out VMS, the Visualization Mega SDK, complete with source code.

Here is my slightly-outdated resume.