Jeff Hutchinson
Senior Software Engineer - Merchandising Technology at DICK'S Sporting Goods
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Hutchinson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Pittsburgh with 11 years of experience building scalable pricing and merchandising systems at DICK’S Sporting Goods. He brings deep low-level systems expertise from a decade of open-source game-engine work on Torque3D—tackling OpenGL rendering, shader compilation, allocators, multithreading, SIMD, and a byte-code script interpreter—which informs his pragmatic approach to performance and maintainability. Comfortable across full-stack enterprise engineering and game-engine internals, he has a track record of modernizing build systems and integrating platform libraries to support cross-compiler stability. Jeff holds a B.S. in Computing & Information Science from Saint Vincent College and combines production e-commerce delivery with continued passion for graphics and engine-level problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computing and Information Sciences, Bachelors, Computing and Information Sciences at Saint Vincent College
Github Skills (13)
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game-development10
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game-engine10
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graphics-programming10
game-dev10
build-system9
cmake9
glsl8
multiplatform7
cross-platform7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GarageGames/Torque3D
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 17 PRs, 139 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the core engine of the Torque3D game engine by addressing low-level issues. They fixed shader compilation issues, and removed deprecated or unused OpenGL extensions. Further work included integrating and updating external libraries like epoxy for OpenGL and improving build processes for different compiler versions. These changes reflect a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the engine.
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JeffProgrammer/jbl
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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