Brandon Grimshaw
Senior Game Programmer at Lightning Forge Games
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolBrandon Grimshaw is a senior game programmer based in Queensland, Australia with 11 years of experience specialising in gameplay systems, real-time multiplayer, optimisation and cross-platform porting. He has led engineering teams and shipped multiplayer and RTS projects at studios including PlaySide, Toast VR, Snap Games Studio and Gameloft, and now works freelance while serving as Senior Game Programmer at Lightning Forge Games. Brandon is engine-agnostic and thrives on breaking down hard problems into practical, performant solutions—often owning network architecture and tooling integration as well as gameplay features. He pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and clear knowledge-sharing, evidenced by repeated tech lead roles and responsibilities for internal infrastructure and collaboration systems. An unusual strength is his deep practical experience integrating custom P2P networking into Unreal Engine 4, giving him rare insight into both low-level engine internals and game-facing APIs.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment, Computer Software Engineering at Queensland University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (134)
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cross-language10
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javascript10
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rust10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Grimeh/waller
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
Grimeh/atomic-wait
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
Cross-platform atomic wait and wake (aka futex) functionality for Rust.
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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