Young 3d developer prodigy, he won at 19 “The Party”, the biggest demo scene contest with a realtime demo featuring his 3d engine written in assembly on an Amiga 500. After graduating from Ensimag in computer science and applied mathematics, he first worked for video games, developing technology for the Ryzom MMORPG. In 2005, he co-founded Mercenaries Engineering, and has been working since then developing Guerilla Render and providing support for many companies, including On Entertainment, Prime Focus or Mikros Image.

Cyril has always programmed 3d engine software. Student, he wrote multiple realtime rasterizers in assembly language for his demo scene projects. Graduated in Computer Graphics at Marne La Vallée University, he worked in the video game industry and supervised the development of the Ryzom MMORPG 3d engine. Then he worked on various production rendering technologies involving the Reyes algorithm, brute force path tracing and now advanced monte carlo ray tracing for Guerilla Render.