John Byrd
CEO at Gigantic Software, LLC
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Byrd is a seasoned software entrepreneur and CEO with 14+ years building audio and AI systems that ship in millions of games and consumer products. He founded Gigantic Software, negotiated console licenses with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, and sold middleware to clients including Sony, Disney, Technicolor, Konami and EA. A Harvard-trained computer scientist, he pairs deep DSP and tools expertise with practical product and business acumen, holding patents and speaking at GDC and AES. He has led engineering teams and established CI/CD and Agile practices at companies like Sonance and Sega, scaling distributed development and mentoring engineers. Known for a contrarian drive to build what others say can’t be built, he also maintained a high-profile public technical presence as a Quora Top Writer. Based in Irvine, CA, he uniquely blends hands-on engineering, deal-making, and developer enablement to turn ambitious audio and AI ideas into widely adopted products.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Harvard University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
llvm-mos/continuous-release
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Project for continuous build and release of the llvm-mos compiler toolset
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
compilerscontinuouscompilertoolsetmos
johnwbyrd/superpawn
Oct 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:252 commits, 95 pushes, 26 branches in 3 years 5 months
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