Johan Gustafsson is a seasoned C#/.NET senior developer with 16 years of experience building and operating regulated online gambling platforms across multiple European markets. He combines deep backend expertise—designing core architectures, optimizing MS SQL environments processing billions of financial transactions, and troubleshooting production deadlocks—with hands-on DevOps work on cloud, Kubernetes, and CockroachDB. As a former systems architect and partner at WebPrefer, he led integrations for major operators and implemented high-availability database solutions and replication strategies. Johan is also an active open-source contributor to the Stride3D game engine, improving rendering, shader compilation, and Vulkan reliability—an unusual cross-pollination that informs his systems-level thinking. Based in Växjö, Sweden, he pairs pragmatic production focus with a developer’s curiosity, evidenced by personal projects in graphics programming. His combination of regulated-market compliance experience and low-level performance tuning makes him particularly strong at reliable, auditable financial systems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
IT-Programmet, IT-Programmet at John Bauer Gymnasiet
Stride (formerly Xenko), a free and open-source cross-platform C# game engine.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Contributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Johan made numerous contributions to the Stride game engine, focusing on rendering, shader compilation, and asset management. They addressed bugs related to normal map reconstruction, Vulkan concurrency issues, and shader parsing. They also implemented new features, such as the option to bind opaque output during the transparent render stage and the ability to use per-frame logical groups. Furthermore, the user improved the game engine by dynamically detecting runtime content types and updating the default value attributes.
Contributions:100 commits, 2 PRs, 91 pushes in 2 years 2 months
gamedevxenkogame-developmentopenglgame-engine
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