Austin Clifton
Software Engineer at TikTok
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Clifton is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in real-time graphics, immersive experiences, and performance-critical C++ and Unity C# systems. He has shipped production-grade tooling and distributed rendering clients—from RNDR’s multithreaded C++ renderer used by hundreds of artists to TikTok’s Effect SDK performance optimizations—and has deep experience bridging artist workflows and engineering constraints. At Meta he improved automatic LOD generation and built validation tooling, and at MSG he architected multithreaded SQLite backends and distributed Unity rendering networks. Comfortable leading small teams and managing stakeholder-driven feature design, he pairs low-level optimization skills with a knack for visually engaging, procedural media. Based in Los Angeles, he also experiments with OpenFrameworks and procedural audio-visual work, blending pragmatic engineering with playful creativity.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Miami
English
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Github Skills (28)
audio10
openframeworks10
ios9
linux9
opencv9
windows9
opengl9
android9
raspberry-pi9
cpp9
emscripten9
computer-vision9
geospatial7
3d7
gis7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
austin-clifton/ofxSeam
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Seam is a pin-based node editor addon for OpenFrameworks that makes prototyping, iterating, and building data-driven visual systems easier and faster.
Contributions:2 releases, 72 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
austin-clifton/cryptopp-chacha-asm-test
Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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