# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-abrash
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:04.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-abrash"
name: "Michael Abrash"
slug: "michael-abrash"
description: "Michael Abrash is an American programmer and technical writer. He has written dozens of magazine articles and multiple books on code optimization and software-rendered graphics for IBM PC compatibles. He worked at id Software in the mid-1990s on the rendering technology for Quake. He later wrote the Pixomatic software renderer for RAD Game Tools. Since 2014, he has been the chief scientist of Oculus VR, a subsidiary of Meta Platforms."
tagline: "Game programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Abrash_at_Facebook's_F8_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.36
  momentum:             15.76326002587322
  historical:           9.023189333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%85%8B%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E4%BA%9A%E4%BC%AF%E6%8B%89%E4%BB%80"
    title: "迈克尔·亚伯拉什"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash"
    title: "Michael Abrash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash"
    title: "Michael Abrash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash"
    title: "Michael Abrash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash"
    title: "Michael Abrash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash"
    title: "Michael Abrash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%EC%95%A0%EB%B8%8C%EB%9D%BC%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "마이클 애브라시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash"
    title: "Michael Abrash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash"
    title: "Michael Abrash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%88%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Абраш, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump