Cairn Overturf
Software Engineer at Google
United States
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Top SchoolCairn Overturf is a software engineer with 14 years of experience focused on compilers, operating systems, scientific computing, and real-time rendering. He has held engineering roles at Google, Microsoft, Epic, and Ideum, bringing production-grade systems thinking from interactive graphics to large-scale platform work. With an MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico, he combines rigorous numerical insight with low-level systems expertise. At Google he continues to apply that blend to complex performance and correctness challenges, drawing on prior experience across gaming and enterprise software. Colleagues describe him as someone who enjoys digging into the plumbing—optimizing runtimes, toolchains, and rendering pipelines—to make high-performance systems more reliable and predictable. He often bridges research-grade algorithms and production constraints, turning advanced math into practical, ship-ready implementations.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics at The University of New Mexico
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Github Skills (17)
modular7
byte6
clang6
toolchain6
windows6
hid6
winapi6
rawinput6
llvm5
compiler4
interpreter2
ide2
nothrow2
openal-soft1
openal1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
haifenghuang/YAVM-Virtual-Machine
Mar 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year 11 months
byteregister-basedcompilerregisterinterpreter
cairnc/qwak_net
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:6 pushes in 19 days
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