David White
Game Programmer at Valve corporation
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid White is a seasoned game programmer with 22 years of cross-industry experience, currently shaping interactive experiences at Valve in Bothell, Washington. His background spans senior engineering and principal roles at Google and Sabre Holdings, plus founding leadership as President of Wesnoth, Inc., blending large-scale systems engineering with deep game development instincts. He contributes to open-source projects like Frogatto & Friends, focusing on editor functionality, GUI, shaders, and texture systems—work that reflects an attention to tooling and user-facing polish beyond core gameplay. Comfortable across backend and graphics-related code, he brings a pragmatic approach to solving editor, rendering, and UI integration challenges. Known for steadily shipping robust systems, he pairs enterprise-grade engineering discipline with a game maker’s eye for detail.
22 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
game-dev10
opengl9
image-processing8
graphics-programming8
front-end-development8
shader8
opengl-es7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
frogatto/frogatto
Jun 2011 - Nov 2020
Frogatto & Friends is an action-adventure game, starring a certain quixotic frog.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1233 commits, 1 PR, 75 pushes in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David's commits primarily focus on modifying the action-adventure game "Frogatto & Friends" codebase, specifically focusing on fixing editor-related functionality, such as object placement and the application of the correct color palette. They also modified code related to GUI, shader code, and the texture system. Their work appears to be related to core game functionality and UI interactions.
action-adventuregamefrogadventure-game
anura-engine/anura
May 2013 - Nov 2022
Anura Engine
Contributions:1829 commits, 30 PRs, 876 pushes in 9 years 7 months
anura
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