Justin Sargent
Co-Founder CEO at Game Studio Startup
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Sargent is a seasoned game engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building high-performance tools, services, and live game systems. Rising through technical roles at Big Huge Games into multiple senior engineering leadership positions at Epic Games, he has guided large teams across store and online engineering while retaining hands-on expertise in C++, C#, and Unreal. Now CEO and Co-Founder of a Sci-Fantasy multiplayer sandbox studio in Raleigh, he blends product vision with deep platform and tooling knowledge to ship scalable, player-facing systems. A lifelong programmer who started coding in fourth grade, Justin is as committed to mentoring engineers and improving team craft as he is to building polished game experiences. He has a track record of architecting robust localization, telemetry, and tooling pipelines for AAA titles—skills that inform his current startup’s technical foundation.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Game Programming, Bachelors, Game Programming at University of Advancing TechnologyAssociates, Web Programming, Associates, Web Programming at James A. Rhodes State College
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
0rigin85/screeps-spore
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
unrealengine47/UnrealEngine4
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:15 commits in 29 days
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