Levi Lindsey
Senior Software Engineer at Snoring Cat
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLevi Lindsey is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with 16 years of frontend expertise and 12 years focused on gameplay and engine systems, currently contributing to the Meta Horizon Worlds editor. He combines large-scale, live-service engineering—distributed systems, telemetry, and security-minded frontend architecture—with deep gameplay experience in AI, physics, networking, and tooling developed across AAA titles and indie releases. At Google he led a multi-year migration impacting millions of users; at Manticore and Bungie he drove performance, UI, and state-machine innovations that measurably reduced bugs and sped development. As founder of Snoring Cat he invented a novel platformer pathfinding algorithm and a new “point-and-click platformer” genre, publishing 20+ games and extensive tutorials and devlogs. Levi pairs rigorous engineering discipline with prolific side projects and a background in vocal performance, bringing both technical depth and creative curiosity to product and design challenges.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (98)
tiles10
gif-animation10
animated10
infrastructure10
cpp10
game-development10
scaffolding10
godot10
javascript10
game-engine10
animation10
aseprite10
gdscript10
application10
angular10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SnoringCatGames/surface_tiler
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
levilindsey/animatex
Jul 2018 - Feb 2025
A lightweight framework for custom animations
Contributions:17 PRs, 14 pushes, 12 branches in 6 years 7 months
lightweight-frameworkanimateanimationanimations
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