Lucien Greathouse
Founder at Second Half Games
Ohio, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLucien Greathouse is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building developer tools, game systems, and live-service infrastructure primarily in the Roblox ecosystem. He created and led core open-source projects like Roact, TestEZ, and Rojo at Roblox, and later architected Wally, a Rust-based package manager and public registry, demonstrating deep expertise in both frontend UI frameworks and backend tooling. As an engineering manager he improved team velocity and launched continuous deployment initiatives for large live games, and now runs an indie studio focused on making game development less painful. He combines systems-level thinking—concurrent programming, atomic persistence, low-latency networking—with a pragmatic focus on developer experience and automation. Lucien is notable for bringing modern software practices (FRP-like bindings, resource compilers, package management) to a platform that historically lacked them.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Non-Degree, Mathematics, Non-Degree, Mathematics at University of Montana
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (16)
json10
lua10
roblox10
ui-design10
react10
serialization9
serializer9
testing8
gsub6
key-management6
licensing6
asp-net-mvc6
javascript6
entity-framework6
rights-management6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rojo-rbx/rojo
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Rojo enables Roblox developers to use professional-grade software engineering tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 releases, 119 reviews, 1284 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lucien's contributions focused on improving the Rojo build system. They made several documentation cleanups across multiple files, including the addition of comments. The user also added support for CFrame to be used in model JSON files and created new tests that ensure the code handles these changes correctly.
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Roblox/roact
Nov 2017 - Jan 2022
A view management library for Roblox Lua similar to React
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 310 commits, 146 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lucien primarily contributed to the `roblox/roact` repository, a view management library for Roblox Lua. Their work involved refactoring code and adding functionality to the library. These changes included moving files, fixing coverage issues, and adding the Apache 2.0 license, which shows involvement in the project's core functionality and maintenance.
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