John Luxford
Chief Executive Officer at Flipside XR
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJohn Luxford is a multidisciplinary founder and engineering leader with 15 years building XR products, real-time animation tools, and scalable web platforms from Winnipeg, Canada. As CEO of Flipside XR (and former CTO) he has shipped several industry firsts — from the first VR board game to a metaverse social media platform — while maintaining open source projects used by millions. Equally comfortable in C#, Go, Python and web stacks, he blends hands-on full‑stack engineering, systems administration, and performance/security expertise with product and business strategy. A lifelong maker—musician, writer, and performer—he brings creative storytelling instincts to technical problems, often turning experimental prototypes into commercial offerings.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (158)
syslog10
transliteration10
cms10
silverstripe10
postgresql10
pretty-urls10
mvc10
smarty10
ascii10
cldr10
monitoring10
multilingual10
seo10
slugify10
internationalization10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
campfireunion/NewtonVR-Multiplayer
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
movementsplaybackinteractionsmultiplayercapabilities
jbroadway/stripe
Feb 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
cmspaymentsstripestripe-paymentspayment
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