Mike Pavone
Summary
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RockstarMichael Pavone is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building real-time systems and multimedia features, currently driving the native voice-call component for Discord on Xbox and PS5 and serving as the main technical contact for platform partners. His background spans server and client work—from leading server teams and maintaining C++ real-time combat servers at KIXEYE to improving overlay, screenshare, and video performance at Discord—bringing both technical leadership and deep implementation expertise. Michael is also an active open-source author (creator of the BlastEm emulator) and shares additional repositories at retrodev.com, reflecting a long-standing interest in low-level systems and retro computing. Based in Berkeley, he combines in-the-trenches engineering with cross-team collaboration to deliver performant, platform-integrated experiences.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (43)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
libretro/blastem
Nov 2012 - Mar 2021
Upstream tracking repo of BlastEm, the fast and accurate Genesis emulator, with libretro specific changes
Contributions:1976 commits in 8 years 5 months
libretro
AmatCoder/blastem-gtk
Oct 2012 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1461 commits in 4 years 11 months
minecraftretrodev
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