Guangcong Luo
Owner at Guangcong Luo Software LLC
Osseo, Minnesota, United States
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Guangcong Luo is a seasoned software engineer and owner of Guangcong Luo Software LLC with 17 years of experience building and maintaining both front-end and back-end systems. Based in Osseo, Minnesota, he is an active open-source contributor known for significant work on Pokémon Showdown and contributions to notable projects like the Warzone 2100 real-time strategy game. His C++ work has strengthened game logic, AI, and cross-platform support, while his front-end efforts have improved UI theming and developer workflows for tools like smogon/damage-calc. Comfortable across the stack, he balances feature development, bug fixes, documentation, and community support. An often-overlooked strength is his knack for polishing user-facing details—cursor support, message display fixes, and cache-busting builds—that meaningfully improve product quality.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of MinnesotaWayzata High School
English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
smogon/damage-calc
Feb 2015 - Sep 2018
Pokemon games damage calculator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 73 PRs, 86 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Guangcong primarily focused on front-end development tasks, including theming and UI enhancements. They added a new theme to match the Pokemon Showdown website, refactored CSS and HTML to improve the calculator's appearance and functionality, and fixed minor bugs. The user also improved the application's support for offline development and implemented a build script for cache busting.
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Warzone2100/warzone2100
Jan 2009 - Apr 2011
Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:928 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Guangcong primarily contributed to the game's core logic and features, working with code written in C++. Their commits focused on implementing player feedback for in-game events, enabling Mac OS X cursor support, and fixing bugs related to message display and power calculations. The user also made improvements to the AI and overall game systems by making the command unit logic more robust, and addressing issues surrounding transport actions.
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