David Ghandehari
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Manticore Games Inc.
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Ghandehari is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience leading complex platform and firmware efforts across games and media at companies including Manticore Games, Google Stadia, and YouTube. He brings deep expertise in object-oriented design, refactoring, and state machines, and a long history of systems-level work in C/C++ and embedded environments from controller firmware to lightweight HTML containers for big-screen devices. As a gameplay technical lead and porting liaison, he has bridged product, partner, and platform teams to deliver cross-device experiences for console and smart-TV ecosystems. Known for applying design patterns pragmatically, he has shepherded portability layers (e.g., Starboard) and led feature ports across diverse hardware—an indicator of both architectural rigor and hands-on delivery. Based in Mountain View, he pairs a UC Berkeley CS background with a passion for maintainable, reusable frameworks that accelerate long-lived product codebases.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (21)
youtube10
cobalt10
cpp10
transcrypt8
mips6
cmake6
python6
multithreading6
javascript6
factory6
browser5
cygwin4
netbsd4
transpiler3
compiler3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
iffyb/heroku-buildpack-python
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
The official Heroku buildpack for Python apps.
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 months
heroku-buildpackherokupythonbuildpackpython-apps
youtube/cobalt
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5 application container
Contributions:78 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cobaltread-onlycppyoutube
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