Gerke Preussner
Owner at Headcrash Industries
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolGerke Preussner is a senior engine programmer and founder with 12 years of professional experience building and optimizing real-time systems, tools, and simulation platforms, now running Headcrash Industries in Cary, NC. He designed and implemented core Unreal Engine features—most notably the Sequencer cinematic tool and the Media Framework—and has a deep track record of shipping platform, tooling, and console/mobile ports at Epic Games. His work spans performance optimization, automated build and test infrastructure, distributed rendering, and integrating complex hardware for serious games and training simulations. As an owner-consultant he helps studios with engine upgrades, platform porting, tooling, and workflow improvements while continuing hands-on code, code review, and training engagements. An active contributor to the Nim language codebase, he brings systems-level rigor from both game-engine and language ecosystems—an uncommon blend that surfaces in low-level fixes, numeric/math improvements, and tooling for developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Universität Rostock
German, English, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
nim-lang10
compiler9
compiler-compiler9
macros8
metaprogramming7
procedural7
unrealscript6
dll6
testing6
algorithm5
data-structures5
data-structure5
algorithms5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/Nim
Dec 2014 - Dec 2017
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 45 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Gerke primarily contributed to the Nim programming language codebase by addressing bugs and implementing new features. Their work includes fixing issues in the unittest output and the `tusertypeclasses` test. Additionally, the user added a complex conjugate function to the `complex.nim` file and addressed stringification issues with negative enum values. They also refactored the `reprEnum` function, and improved the `math.nim` file by setting the value of TAU.
pythonnim-langelegancecompilerprogramming-language
nimious/isense
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes in 1 year
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