Juan Baeza
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJuan Baeza is a senior software engineer with 23 years of experience specializing in graphics, emulation, and systems engineering at Microsoft, where he helped architect Xbox graphics platforms, a high-definition H.264 codec and the Xbox 360 backwards-compatibility emulator. Known internally as an "Emulation Ninja," he has led publishing and incubation teams on major titles like Counter-Strike, Fable, Forza and Crackdown 2 while also contributing to Time Travel Debugging for Windows. His background includes early game-engine and graphics work at Ronin Entertainment and prototype systems at Scavenger, giving him deep, end-to-end expertise in real-time rendering and video pipelines. An instructor of advanced graphics coursework at the University of Washington Extension, he blends hands-on low-level engineering with mentorship and platform-level architecture.
23 years of coding experience
Github Skills (94)
json-parser10
msgpack10
windows10
cmake10
visual-studio10
bson10
cpp10
json-pointer10
cbor10
modular10
windbg10
editor10
api10
visual-studio-extension10
debugging10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TheJCAB/sdk-api
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Public contributions for win32 API documentation
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
apiwin32win32-apiapi-documentation
TheJCAB/vcpkg
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
wxwidgetscpplinux-windowswindowsc-library
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