John Austin
Founder Game Director at Pontoco
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Austin is a founder, game director, and engineer with 14 years of experience building thoughtful interactive experiences from indie studio Pontoco in Seattle. He led engineering for AR/VR at Funomena and has applied deep learning and computer vision at Google to push new mobile experiences on Android. As creator of The Last Clockwinder and other titles, he blends systems-level software skills with design sensibility to ship accessible, emotionally resonant games. His background includes internships at Microsoft and Google and early robotics and ML projects at Northrop Grumman, reflecting a long-standing interest in embodied systems and perception. Comfortable moving between prototype research and polished product, he runs a small studio that prioritizes player empathy and technical rigor. John’s work is notable for connecting advanced perception techniques with playful, human-centered game mechanics.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Spanish, haskell
Github Skills (195)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Pontoco/fbx-sanitizer
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
A cli application to check FBX files for various issues.
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 10 months
fbxcli-applicationcli3d3d-models
Kleptine/.vim
Oct 2012 - Sep 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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