Dean Harding
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Harding is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently helping build Waymo’s autonomous driving stack in San Francisco. He brings a solid systems and back-end engineering background from roles at Unisys and dload Pty Ltd, backed by a BSc in Computer Science from UNSW. At Waymo he works on production-grade, safety-critical systems that require rigorous engineering discipline and real-world validation. His open-source contributions include back-end improvements to the War Worlds MMO, where he solved tricky fleet-selection, movement timing, and native-colony handling issues—demonstrating attention to correctness in time-sensitive simulations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, efficiency-minded changes that improve reliability and clarity in complex codebases. He blends long-term enterprise experience with startup-style ownership and a knack for untangling subtle state and timing bugs.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (7)
javas10
game-development10
backend10
java10
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
codeka/wwmmo
Dec 2011 - May 2022
War Worlds MMO
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2718 commits, 3 PRs in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dean primarily contributed to back-end functionalities, focusing on improving and fixing the fleet selection and movement features. They modified the starfield manager to handle the selection and removal of fleets. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to the handling of native colonies by implementing logic to manage them and ensuring the accuracy of time-based calculations for fleet movement. They also made adjustments to existing code for efficiency and clarity.
gamegame-developmentmmomultiplayermmorpg
codeka/steptastic
Aug 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 9 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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