Cody Woputz
Co-Founder & CTO at Throwback Studios
Bend, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolCody Woputz is an award-winning game designer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building multiplayer and mixed-reality experiences. As Co-Founder and CTO of Throwback Studios he is reinventing neighborhood play through Derby, a physics-driven social app that blends casual gameplay with social connection. Cody previously founded Blue Trot Group, served as Founding CTO at STRIVR Labs, and worked as a software engineer at Facebook, giving him a rare mix of startup founding chops, research lab leadership, and product engineering at scale. His work—rooted in an M.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford—has earned coverage in outlets from The New Yorker to Scientific American, reflecting both creative storytelling and technical rigor. Based in Bend, Oregon, he combines pragmatic engineering with playful design sensibilities, often translating academic VR research into consumer-facing social games.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of California, DavisMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (5)
kdumovic/VRTEX-kinect
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
vhilab/Ocean-Acidification
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:16 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 month
oceanocean-acidification
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