Alexander Kastanek
Senior Software Engineer at Gold Coin Studios
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Kastanek is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience specializing in game development, virtual reality, computer graphics, and AI-driven systems. A University of Nevada, Reno graduate with a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, he has grown through multiple engineering roles at Gold Coin Studios, moving from junior developer to senior engineer while shipping production-quality game and VR features. He combines deep technical curiosity—sparked by technical high school training and early teaching of 3D animation—with practical experience in software architecture and graphics programming. Alexander pairs hands-on implementation skills with mentoring and cross-disciplinary collaboration, having taught animation to middle-schoolers and supported hardware-integrated projects during an internship at Olea Sensor Networks. Motivated by making work he’s proud of, he focuses on measurable impact in immersive experiences and long-lived systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (11)
alex7
eclipse-neon7
ogre5
eclipse4
snowball4
spring4
player3
architecture3
game-development3
neon2
game-engine2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AlexKastanek/CPE400DynamicRouting
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
BryceDMonaco/CS381
Apr 2019 - May 2019
The code for my projects for CS381, Game Engine Architecture, taken in Spring 2019. OGRE and other dependencies are not included. All projects written with Ogre and in Eclipse NEON 2. As5 and As6 are written with Alex Kastanek. FinalProject was written with Kevin Carlos and Alex Kastanek.
Contributions:13 PRs, 88 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
dependenciesmy-projectsfinalprojectalexgame-development
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