Brandon Slack
Senior Engineering Group Manager at General Motors
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Slack is a senior engineering leader with 14+ years building embedded and client-side systems, now leading engineering groups for General Motors in Canada. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C/C++/Objective-C/Java/Python and mobile frameworks (iOS UIKit, Android, Qt, OpenGL ES) with product ownership experience shipping automotive audio and embedded Android platforms. His career includes engineering roles at Apple and RIM and principal client engineering at Quickplay, reflecting a strong track record of guiding cross-platform, usability-focused solutions. An active open-source contributor, he significantly advanced iOS support for the Gameplay3D engine—adding accelerometer, gesture, keyboard, rotation and HiDPI handling—illustrating his knack for practical platform ports. Based in Thunder Bay, he blends systems-level technical depth with user-centric design sensibilities and a persistent interest in HCI and game development.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (12)
objective-c10
gesture-recognition10
ios10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
cplus10
accelerometer9
opengl-es9
cross-platform9
qml6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gameplay3d/gameplay
Jan 2012 - Oct 2012
Open-source, cross-platform, C++ game engine for creating 2D/3D games.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:79 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to adding and improving iOS support for the gameplay3d game engine. Their work included fixing Mac OS X compiling issues and adding initial code for iOS in Base.h. The user also integrated virtual keyboard support, added accelerometer functionality using the core motion framework, and addressed device rotation and high-resolution display scaling for iOS builds. Furthermore, they implemented gesture support including pinch, swipe, and tap, making it a key contributor to the mobile port.
cpp3d-gamesgamesgamedevvulkan
blackscomber/GamePlay
Jan 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:79 commits in 8 months
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