Ashwin Lele is a senior software engineer working in the compiler team at NVIDIA. His work includes implementing new features and optimizations for GLSL/SPIR-V shader compiler and representing NVIDIA on shading language discussions at Khronos. He has contributed to several NVIDIA GLSL extensions and is the co-author for the RTX GLSL extension. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.