Michael Tedder
Country Manager & Principal Engineer, Japan at SapWorks
Sapporo, Japan
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Top SchoolMichael Tedder is a realtime 3D graphics specialist and engineering leader with over 25 years of shipped game and engine work and 17 years of professional experience, currently serving as Country Manager & Principal Engineer for Japan. He architects high-performance, cross-platform rendering and multiplayer systems—with deep C++17, CPU/GPU parallelization, shader, and scenegraph expertise—while also designing scalable AWS-based backends and CI/CD pipelines for game services. As founder/CTO of Cold Fusion, he built a custom multithreaded engine, shipped Crystal Clash across consoles and mobile, and ran its multiplayer on serverless AWS infrastructure supporting large-scale play. Equally comfortable in low-level optimization and cloud networking, he combines security-minded internet engineering with practical DevOps using Docker, TypeScript, PHP, and Python. A native English speaker fluent in Japanese, he’s an active community organizer and AWS Community Builder who surfaces technical knowledge through talks and local game and demo events.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Central Florida
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
884reputation
34kreached
5answers
2questions
Github Skills (80)
ruby10
android-apps10
geometric10
android10
mesh9
transmission9
interpreter9
automation9
compression9
react-native9
gitlab-api9
ios9
php9
3d-graphics9
fastlane9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
coldfusionjp/build-clang-llvm
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
falken42/stripe-apps-webgl
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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