Dave Buchhofer
Principal Software Engineer at Matterport
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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SeniorDave Buchhofer is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years at Matterport and over two decades in interactive 3D, building the web viewer/editors that power more than 5 billion views of real-world spaces. He owns full-stack systems from multi-model WebGL rendering and WebXR to spatial navigation, measurement tools, and compare/side-by-side experiences, combining deep graphics expertise with production-grade reliability. Comfortable across architecture, implementation, testing infrastructure and CI/CD, he focuses on usability and stability for industries like real estate, construction, and facilities management. A recovering Arch-Viz artist turned realtime graphics developer, he blends design sensibility with hands-on engineering in Typescript, Three.js, Unity and C#. Based in Philadelphia, he’s known for turning complex architectural workflows into practical, scalable viewer systems that meet high-stakes, real-world needs.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (147)
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specification10
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optimization10
mesh-processing10
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javascript10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
matterport/three-bmfont-text
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
renders BMFont files in ThreeJS with word-wrapping
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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matterport/layout-bmfont-text
Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
word-wraps and lays out text glyphs
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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