Jñani Crawford
Programmer at Santa Monica Studio
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJñani Crawford is a gameplay-focused programmer with a decade of engineering experience who blends a deep passion for game development with rigorous systems and research backgrounds. Currently pursuing an MS in Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz and now on the programming team at Santa Monica Studio, Jñani has shipped editor and tools tech, performance-tuned gameplay systems, and built cinematic planning tools used by designers. Their prior work spans neural-network compiler development in modern C++, realtime data and vision research at Stanford, and intern roles delivering AI opponents and AWS-integrated tooling in Unreal Engine. Comfortable across C++, Python, and game engines, they pair production-first engineering with academic curiosity—having implemented MCTS for game AI and applied explanation methods to CNNs. Based in Los Angeles, Jñani is driven by turning design intent into polished interactive systems and quietly bridges research insights with practical game tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzBachelor’s Degree Symbolic Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
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Github Skills (8)
android6
libgdx6
fileio6
screen-shot6
image6
relevance5
tensorflow2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cjnani16/deeprfs_tf
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
moving primarily to tensorflow -- Facial Feature Relevance for CNNs
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 6 months
deep-learningcnnsfacialrelevancetensorflow
cjnani16/labyrinth
Aug 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches, 15 comments in 3 years 3 months
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