Dean Johnson
Software Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Johnson is a software engineer in San Jose with 11 years of experience building high-performance C# and C/C++ systems for defense and games. At General Dynamics he shipped SIGINT collection and real-time visualization tools and as an intern led development of a simulation that cut demo prep from two weeks to three hours. He contributes to open-source game tooling—enhancing the editor of the AdamsLair duality 2D framework—and has built scalable multiplayer and AI systems in Unity supporting thousands of networked objects. A former Marine and long-time martial arts instructor, he brings disciplined leadership, team coaching, and pragmatic project planning to small development teams. He’s particularly interested in applying AI and scientific simulation techniques to game development and signal-analysis problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityComputer Science, 3.46, Computer Science, 3.46 at San Jose City College
Github Skills (15)
editors10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
game-development10
csharp10
game-engine10
editor10
game-dev10
user-interface9
human-interface9
graphical-user-interface9
app-framework9
application-framework9
web-framework9
opengl8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AdamsLair/duality
Jan 2016 - Jul 2018
a 2D Game Development Framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 18 PRs, 113 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dean primarily contributed to the editor functionality of the 2D Game Development Framework. Their work involved adding features like multi-select component addition, handling editor actions, and integrating copy/paste functionality within the scene view. Further, they addressed code style inconsistencies by fixing space indentation issues and implemented improvements to the object reference dialog and component initialization.
2d-gamedotnetgamedevframeworkgame-development
deanljohnson/Questify
Jun 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:88 commits, 10 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 10 months
proceduraljavascriptquest
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