Austin Willoughby
Senior Lecturer, School Of Interactive Games And Media at Rochester Institute of Technology
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Willoughby is a Senior Lecturer at RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media with 11 years of experience teaching game development, interactive media, and full-stack web technologies while actively shipping indie and studio game projects. He combines academic rigor—an MS in Game Design and Development with a 4.0 GPA—with hands-on industry practice, having served as Development Lead on a local multiplayer title and previously worked as a .NET developer on warehouse systems. An award-winning educator who founded a mentorship program to boost first-year student success, he advises capstone research and brings curriculum to life through real-world production workflows. Based in Rochester, NY, he balances classroom instruction with ongoing game development, making him a practical mentor who still writes and ships code.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Game Design and Development, GPA: 4.0 / 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Game Design and Development, GPA: 4.0 / 4.0 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at New Milford High School
Github Skills (32)
mongoose10
forking10
http-api10
http-status10
expressjs9
handlebars9
gulp9
api9
nodejs9
streaming9
parser8
react8
mongodb8
parse8
parsing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IGM-RichMedia-at-RIT/Express-File-Upload-Done
Nov 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
IGM-RichMedia-at-RIT/status-code-example-done
Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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