Brenton Gunning
Engineering Manager at Orca
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenton Gunning is an engineering manager and founder with over a decade leading high-performance systems and consumer-facing products, and 25 years of hands-on coding experience. He built and scaled novel blockchain platforms—founding RUN (an open-source L2 with 600M+ transactions and multiple patents) and Aldea (a WASM-based chain that hit 1M+ tx/sec in internal tests)—and now leads engineering at Orca. Previously he led Creative Tools at Snap and worked on 3D graphics and tooling at Microsoft, shipping widely used media and mapping features and earning patents along the way. He blends deep systems and graphics expertise with product intuition, often optimizing for parallelism, GPU acceleration, and developer ergonomics. Known for turning research-grade ideas into production systems, he combines startup grit with experience at large tech firms to drive both architecture and delivery.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Penn State UniversitySouthern Lehigh High School
Spanish
Github Skills (32)
mixing10
facebook9
bitcoin9
blockchain9
indexer9
assemblyscript9
rust8
webassembly8
typescript8
cryptocurrency8
javascript8
threejs8
webgl8
testing8
electron7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brentongunning/rust-bch
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
runonbitcoin/walleteering
May 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year
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