George Hoqqanen
Founder at Three Pixel Heart
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Hoqqanen is a founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building playful consumer products and production-grade systems across startups and big tech. He founded Three Pixel Heart, shipping AI-powered party games and a tabletop title via Kickstarter, and is currently publishing slab17.com—projects that blend game design with machine learning. His background includes profiling TensorFlow XLA on TPUs at Google and growth engineering at Asana, giving him a rare mix of low-level performance tuning and user-focused product work. He also contributed as an AI research scientist in trading environments and served in engineering at GiveDirectly, reflecting a commitment to mission-driven technology. Based in San Diego, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering, often exploring how delight and wonder can be embedded in software. An understated strength is his knack for turning playful prototypes into shippable products that scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford University
Github Skills (88)
typescript10
firebase9
database8
auth8
realtime8
postgresql7
dotnet7
monogame7
firestore7
nextjs7
dts7
supabase7
csharp7
game-development6
3d6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ProofByConstruction/better-explanations
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 16 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
sharingwarehouse
TranquilResonance/TranquilResonance
Jan 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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