Blake Caven
Lead Software Engineer at Notre Dame Studios
Metro Jacksonville United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Caven is a Lead Software Engineer and MS Computer Science candidate at the University of Notre Dame with a decade of hands-on experience building real-time systems for virtual production and digital twins. He designs and implements real-time pose and depth approximation pipelines, integrating stYpe tracking with Unreal Engine 5 to deliver immersive, production-ready virtual studios. Blake combines academic research—real-time physics, relighting, and depth estimation—with practical studio engineering, having taught advanced game development and built a C++ game engine from scratch. His work uniquely bridges architectural preservation web models and cutting-edge machine learning for real-time immersion, reflecting both breadth and a focus on applied research. Based in Notre Dame, Indiana, he brings a developer-first approach to multidisciplinary teams that need low-latency, high-fidelity real-time solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (16)
realms8
altium-designer7
rendering7
haptic-feedback7
flask-socketio7
routeros6
clipper6
haiku6
dm5
nodejs-client5
ardrone5
raspberry-pi-pico4
distributed-systems4
mixer4
stream-processor3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BCaven/haptic-hat
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Raspberry PI Pico haptic feedback balance assistant
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
haptic-feedbackraspberry-pi-pico
BCaven/Hello-World
May 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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