Michael Boone
Distinguished Engineer, Graphics at Glaas.io / koprulu
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Boone is a Distinguished Engineer specializing in graphics with 14 years building game and AR/VR systems across studios and startups from Linden Lab to Turn 10 and Pluto VR. He blends deep technical R&D and architecture experience with hands-on engineering—running an independent contracting practice and co-founding AR/VR platforms while bootstrapping a startup. Comfortable across backend, mobile and graphics stacks, he has led platform engineering and real-time graphics efforts and often toggles between product delivery and exploratory research. Based in Seattle with a CS degree from UC Davis, he leverages flexible contracting to incubate AR/VR innovations and bring prototype concepts into production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at UC Davis
Github Skills (73)
messaging10
concurrency10
steamvr10
openxr10
io-uring10
stream10
sdk10
openvr10
network10
pubsub10
networking10
hardware10
oculus9
overlay9
zeromq9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fuag15/project_northstar_openvr_driver
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
OpenVR Drivers for Project Northstar
Contributions:3 releases, 46 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
driversnorthstaropenvr
fuag15/aardvark
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
A platform for AR in VR
Contributions:4 PRs, 28 pushes, 14 branches in 10 months
virtual-realityopenvraugmented-realityopenxrunity
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