Benbuck Nason
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
United States
Summary
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RockstarBenbuck Nason is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience building game and entertainment software, currently developing and maintaining Netflix’s console client applications. His background spans low-level C/C++ systems, memory allocators, image processing, UI, and build systems across PlayStation and PC platforms, with hands-on experience porting engines to PS3. He has held senior and leadership roles at Sony and multiple game studios, shipping titles on consoles, Dreamcast, and handhelds, which gives him deep practical knowledge of constrained-platform performance optimization. An active maintainer of community tools like an updated RBTray fork, he balances legacy code stewardship with modernizing projects and improving developer ergonomics. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge engine internals and polished user-facing experiences.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Italian
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Github Skills (10)
hotkeys10
hook10
c-language10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
winapi10
wp-api10
keyboard9
front-end-development9
mouse8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
benbuck/rbtray
May 2017 - Apr 2022
A fork of RBTray from http://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/code/.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 5 reviews, 47 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Benbuck primarily contributed to maintaining and improving the RBTray application. Their work included fixing bugs, adding error handling, and updating project files to newer versions of Visual Studio. They also added support for a new hotkey, cleaned up code, and addressed issues related to the desktop/taskbar interactions. The user's modifications extended to UI and documentation, adding context to the codebase.
traysourceforgemousekeyboard-eventstray-icon
benbuck/EnvDTE
Dec 2015 - Dec 2018
Sample code to open a file in Visual Studio at a specific line number.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
vsixvisual-studio-extensionvisual-studio
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