Amanda Watson
Chief Technology Officer at REK
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Watson is a Chief Technology Officer and low-level software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems, particularly in VR and real-time interaction. She led and shipped core networking and tracking features at Oculus—singlehandedly driving Oculus Air Link for over a year—and has deep expertise making latency feel 1:1 between devices. Trained in both computer science and theatre at Carnegie Mellon, she blends systems engineering with a creative sensibility for user experience and emergent interaction design. Her background includes GPU performance work at Apple, generative modeling research at Disney Research, and contributions to open 3D standards like glTF and FBX2glTF. Based in Dallas, she occasionally hacks on game projects and approaches technical problems with a maker’s curiosity informed by stagecraft.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at Interlake High SchoolBCSA Computer Science and Drama (directing), BCSA Computer Science and Drama (directing) at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (114)
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nintendo10
menu10
zx-spectrum10
realms10
nes-emulator10
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cpp10
devkitpro10
emerald10
decompilation10
commodore10
sega-genesis10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
froggestspirit/Emerald20XX
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
pokeemerald hack
Contributions:140 commits, 12 PRs, 77 pushes in 6 months
froggestspirit/marioland2
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 18 days
super-mariolandmariodisassembly
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