DerrickĀ Canfield
Lead Rendering Engineer II at Magnopus
Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerrick Canfield is a Lead Rendering Engineer with eight years focused on real-time graphics and a deep roots-in-DOS passion that evolved into founding and shipping games across iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Xbox. He leads rendering work at Magnopus while maintaining hands-on engine development experience from building the open-source Derydoca C++ engine and optimizing titles for resource-constrained platforms. Derrick pairs low-level C++ graphics expertise with full-stack .NET web and scalable backend experience from prior senior engineering roles, enabling pragmatic cross-discipline solutions for performance-sensitive projects. He has a proven track record of shipping console and mobile titles, creating internal tooling and art pipelines, and architecting high-availability web systems with zero-downtime deployments. Based in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, he brings entrepreneurial grit and studio ownership perspective to larger teams, bridging indie creativity with production-grade engineering. An early modder turned studio owner, he still codes engine internals and custom tools, which keeps his work grounded in both gameplay and rendering realities.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Game and Simulation Programming, Bachelor's, Game and Simulation Programming at DeVry University
Github Skills (10)
opengl9
game-development9
cpp9
api9
engine9
graphical-user-interface8
game-engine8
imgui8
user-interface7
cross-platform6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Derydoca/derydocaengine
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
C++ Game Engine
Contributions:916 commits, 32 PRs, 717 pushes in 5 years 1 month
cppgamedevc-plus-plusgame-developmentopengl
Derydoca/factory-auto-registration
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 11 days
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