Graham Pentheny
Software Engineer at SpryFox
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGraham Pentheny is a software engineer with 13 years of experience based in Cambridge, MA, combining solid engineering craftsmanship with a focus on game development tooling. As a senior engineer at SpryFox and a long-time maintainer of the industry-standard Recast Navigation mesh toolkit, he excels at low-level systems work—fixing memory leaks, tightening integer handling, and replacing macros with clearer inline functions. He is active in the Boston game dev community, organizing events and contributing to indie game collectives, which keeps his work grounded in real-world game workflows. Known for quiet, pragmatic improvements that reduce technical debt, he balances production code responsibilities with open-source stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
Boston College High SchoolBS, BS at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (15)
mesh10
pathfinding10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
debugging6
xcode6
caching6
objective-c6
gdb6
ios6
drawing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
recastnavigation/recastnavigation
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
Industry-standard navigation-mesh toolset for games
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 73 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Graham primarily contributed to the Recast navigation mesh toolset, focusing on low-level improvements and bug fixes. Their contributions include fixing memory leaks, addressing potential integer conversion issues, and silencing warnings. Additionally, the user improved code clarity by replacing macros with inline functions and consolidating documentation.
meshgame-aigamescrowd-simulationnavmesh
grahamboree/wave_effect
Jan 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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