Paul Varcholik

Paul Varcholik is a skilled software engineer currently employed at Luminar Technologies since October 2023. With extensive experience in education, Varcholik served as an instructor at Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy from June 2007 to October 2023, teaching C++ and C# for Games and Tools Programming, and at Seminole Community College from March 2003 to December 2018, focusing on Game Development, C#, Objective-C, and Visual Basic. Additional academic contributions include a role as an adjunct professor at Florida Polytechnic University in 2016, teaching computer graphics and game development. Varcholik has held various engineering positions at notable firms, including Electronic Arts as a lead software engineer and Iron Galaxy Studios as a software engineer. Varcholik's academic background includes a Ph.D. and an MS in Modeling & Simulation from the University of Central Florida, alongside a BS in Computer Science from Valdosta State University.