Joshua Slack
Chief Technology Officer at KidStrong
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Slack is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO with 13+ years building high-performance software and teams, from open-source 3D engines to enterprise-grade franchise platforms. He created widely used engines (jMonkeyEngine, Ardor3D), contracted with NASA on rover visualization, and shipped games at Disney, demonstrating deep expertise in real-time graphics and simulation as well as consumer-facing products. At KidStrong he architected and shipped the entire technology stack—curriculum delivery, coaching tools, analytics, and an AI help bot—scaling the company from 2 to 175+ locations while growing and then right-sizing engineering teams for maximum leverage. He excels at clean architecture, platform scalability, and pragmatic build/buy decisions, with a track record of turning complex domain problems into visible, impactful systems. Based in Plano, Texas, he blends an engineer’s curiosity (coding since the Apple II+) with strategic leadership, and still actively maintains open-source projects that influence research, defense, and commercial work.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulderstudies in computer science Computer Science, studies in computer science Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBS Computer Science / Game Programming, BS Computer Science / Game Programming at American Sentinel College
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (94)
realtime10
chat10
unreal10
3d10
backend10
spine10
unix10
runtimes10
animation10
linux10
graphics-engine10
nakama10
opengl10
blueprint10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Renanse/Ardor3D
Oct 2012 - Dec 2022
Ardor3D is a free Java based, professionally oriented, open source 3D graphics engine.
Contributions:8 releases, 630 commits, 13 PRs in 10 years 3 months
graphics-enginevolume-rendering3d-graphics-engineopengljava
Renanse/lwjgl3-swt
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
Full OpenGL support for SWT in LWJGL 3
Contributions:17 pushes in 2 years 11 months
opengllwjglswt
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