Benjamin Garney
Founder at The Engine Company
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Garney is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 16+ years of experience building high-performance games, engines, and scalable backends for startups and Fortune 500 clients. He’s shipped consumer hits like Marble Blast Ultra, Social City, EverWing, and Marble It Up!, and has led teams to optimize custom physics, rendering, networking, and platform ports across consoles, mobile, and Apple Arcade. As founder of The Engine Company he incubated and open-sourced the Loom SDK and consulted for clients including Adobe, Disney, Riot, Meta, and Dolby, blending product vision with hands-on engineering. Ben’s background spans academic robotics research and technical authorship (including co-writing Video Game Optimization), and he’s a regular speaker at industry conferences such as GDC and Adobe MAX. Known for turning prototyping into production-quality systems, he pairs deep engine-level expertise with practical business and partnership acumen. Based in Eugene, OR, he continues to ship games and tools that prioritize performance, polish, and long-term maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of OregonPortland State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Purdue University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
mobile-application10
hls-stream10
cpp9
2d-vector9
streaming9
m3u8
kaltura8
llm-inference8
duktape8
rendering8
game-programming8
opengl7
graphic7
javascript-engine7
game-development6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TheEngineCompany/ffmpeg
Jul 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
ffmpegcommitspreserve
bengarney/list-of-streams
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Community list of public test streams for HLS and DASH.
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 9 months
dashstreamsstreamingformula1hls-stream
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