Justin Hawkwood
Independent Contractor
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Hawkwood is an experienced mobile and AR/VR app developer based in Portland, Oregon, with 13 years of industry experience and a background in computer engineering. He has co-founded and led teams building immersive applications using engines like Unity3D and Cocos2d, coding across C#, C++, Objective‑C, Swift and Lua while shipping both client work and self-published concept pieces. As a senior lead and independent contractor he focuses on stability and platform-specific fixes—contributions to the widely used open-source Cocos2d-x project include critical iOS crash fixes, memory-leak removals, and texture-cache hardening. Colleagues describe him as collaborative, task-focused, and perpetually learning; he pairs hands-on debugging depth with product-minded design collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Oregon State University
Github Skills (8)
objective-c10
ios10
cpp10
game-development10
game-engine10
cocos2d-x10
cplus10
metal4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cocos2d/cocos2d-x
Jun 2013 - Jun 2015
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on addressing platform-specific issues and ensuring the stability of the Cocos2d-x engine on iOS. Their contributions included fixing crashes related to audio handling, specifically resolving interruption handling issues, and removing memory leaks. The user's work also involved correcting code to leverage the textDefinition properties and enhancing the texture cache by incorporating file existence checks and preventing errors. These changes were critical for the stability and correct functionality of the iOS build.
cocos2dmetalc-plus-plusiosdevelopment-tools
hawkwood/appleunityplugins
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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