Colin Basnett
Senior Software Engineer at SkyBox Labs
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolColin Basnett is a senior software engineer in Vancouver with over a decade of experience building games and domain-specific software, blending gameplay systems and production tooling with robust engineering practices. He’s shipped multiplayer and high-traffic mobile titles, led technical teams on long-running PC projects, and currently develops creator-focused features for Minecraft using test-driven development. His background spans full-stack systems—from Django REST APIs and analytics pipelines to React Native cross-platform drone flight planning and photogrammetry automation—demonstrating comfort across native, web, and game engines. Colin pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring and community-driven iteration, and has a track record of porting native SDKs and optimizing complex workflows for real-world use cases.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
4,094reputation
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127answers
76questions
Github Skills (15)
user-interface10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
animation10
3d10
modeling9
rendering9
computer-graphics9
render9
python8
html6
ios6
nsdate6
math6
iphone6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DarklightGames/UnrealScriptPlus
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:46 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
pestrustunrealscript
cmbasnett/io_scene_rmf
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 15 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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