Kevin Calderone
Principal Software Engineer at Ramen VR
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Calderone is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience building and optimizing low-level systems, gameplay engines, rendering, and AI integrations across both AAA and indie games. He has led teams at Blizzard and startups, co-authored research enabling AI agents to play StarCraft II, and contributed protocol-level updates to the StarCraft II client used by the research community. A founder of an indie studio that shipped millions of iOS installs and a builder of cloud-hosted asset pipelines and Houdini-backed mesh generation tools, he blends product-minded engineering with deep technical craftsmanship. Based in Irvine, CA, he specializes in performance, algorithms, and Unreal Engine tooling—often focusing on the subtle tradeoffs in engine and gameplay design that unlock real-time scale and fidelity.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pasadena City CollegeUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (7)
game-development10
protocol-buffers10
compiler9
struct8
data-structures8
structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Blizzard/s2client-proto
Aug 2017 - Apr 2022
StarCraft II Client - protocol definitions used to communicate with StarCraft II.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 40 commits, 40 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the protocol definitions for the StarCraft II client. Their work involved adding new data fields for features like replay support, tech requirements, and maximum shield and energy values. They also updated existing definitions to incorporate new features, such as effect data and observer actions, as well as making general updates to support 4.0 features. These changes are reflected in modifications across various protocol definition files.
starcraftstarcraft-iicommunicatemachine-learningai
MythicaAI/MythicaUnrealPlugin
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Mythica plugin for Unreal Engine
Contributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 243 PRs in 7 months
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