Alastair Patrick
Contract Programmer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlastair Patrick is a contract programmer based in San Francisco with nine years of professional experience and a background that spans AAA game development and large-scale engineering at Google. He shipped multiple published console titles early in his career—credits include The Bourne Conspiracy, Darkwatch, Reign of Fire and Fireblade—and later applied that real-time, performance-driven mindset to senior software work at Google. Now freelancing since 2013, he blends low-level systems and gameplay programming expertise with experience in large engineering organizations to deliver reliable, high-performance code. His career path reflects an unusual combination of entertainment software craftsmanship and production-grade engineering discipline.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, BEng at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (62)
kotlin10
java10
gradle10
proxy-protocol9
groovy9
commercial9
webserver8
openxr8
automation8
router8
tcp8
http8
raytracing8
firmware8
ocaml8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alastairpatrick/jangle
May 2020 - Aug 2020
A conformant OpenGL ES implementation for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Contributions:112 commits, 103 pushes in 3 months
linuxopengl-eswindows
alastairpatrick/pico-vdp
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:230 commits, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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