Luc Leroy is a French engineer and entrepreneur living in the San Francisco Bat Area, California.
Luc Leroy was co-founder of Semaphora, one of the first companies to provide a sustainable realtime 3D solution for the Internet.
Luc started is career in 1994 in Paris, France as a computer scientist where he worked on Atlantis Render, one of the first real-time ray tracers. Then he became associate and engineering manager at Digimedia Interactive where he developed animation systems around motion capture and video broadcasting. He resigned in 1999 while he disagreed with the executive management of the company and founded Semaphora.
When the market collapsed in 2002 Luc was driving a small software company (Ultra Pimiento, also known on the Web as ‘the hackers group’). Then he joined Francois Lemasne who was founding Okyz. There he prototyped the first Capture 3D application on DirectX then OpenGL. Luc was director of software architecture when Adobe Systems acquired Okyz in December 2004. Luc is currently a senior software engineer at Adobe Systems.
Known for designing strong technologies Luc filed several key patent applications, at this day half of them have been issued. Most architectures he designed and implement are still used by major software companies today.
Luc is also a car racing amateur (several championships) and worked for the race car industry (Porsche, SportDrive, Renault, Ferrari) taking advantage of his skills in both software and mechanical design.
