Michael Panin
Senior Software Developer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Panin is a Senior Software Developer based in London with 12 years of experience building multiplayer games, real-time systems, and expressive VR features. At Meta he retargets face-tracking signals into stylized avatars for Quest Pro co-presence, and previously led teams that shipped a million-player Fog Battle Royale and several console and mobile multiplayer titles. He combines hands-on systems work—contributing networking fixes and serialization improvements to the popular LiteNetLib UDP library—with team leadership, coaching, and a background in game physics and latency-tolerant frameworks. A SIGGRAPH Asia author and former lecturer who trained many contest-winning programmers, he blends research-informed engineering with pragmatic product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, not finished, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, not finished at Saint-Petersburg State University Information Technologies, Mechanic and Optics (University ITMO)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Excellent, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Excellent at ITMO UniversityLyceum "Physical-Technical High School" (PTHS)
Russian, English, German
Stackoverflow
158reputation
8kreached
3answers
5questions
Github Skills (17)
udp10
net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
networking10
serialization10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
cross-platform9
mono9
appstore6
unity-game-engine6
game-development6
apple-tv6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RevenantX/LiteNetLib
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Lite reliable UDP library for Mono and .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 18 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the core functionality of the LiteNetLib library. They fixed packet loss calculations and implemented character serialization and deserialization, enhancing the library's data handling capabilities. Moreover, the user addressed exception handling by adding typed exceptions and adjusting related comments within the code, improving the robustness of the library. Their work focused on network packet processing and serialization, aligning with the library's purpose.
reliable-udpdotnetdot-netmononetworking
marsermd/Flucius
May 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 20 pushes in 7 years
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