Mikhail Sorokin
Software Engineer at CATT Lab (Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory)
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMikhail Sorokin is a software engineer and former CTO with a decade of hands-on experience building VR and AR products, from founding a startup to leading gameplay engineering for shipped titles on Meta Quest. He combines deep C++ and Unreal Engine expertise with backend skills in Go and AWS to optimize performance, reduce crashes, and implement live operations and crossplay systems. Notably, he created custom forks of engine and platform repositories for standalone headsets and built an in-house EOS plugin enabling cross-platform play across Steam, Meta, Epic and PlayStation. His work spans realistic physics, simulation-sickness mitigation, NFT-backed game content pipelines, and AR live-spectating prototypes, reflecting a rare blend of systems-level engineering and product-driven innovation. Based in McLean, VA, he also taught XR courses and produced VR data-visualization research for the NSA, underscoring both practical delivery and academic rigor.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Spanish, English, Russian
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Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MikhailSorokin/Sorokin-Engine
Jul 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
MikhailSorokin/OnlineSubsystemEpic
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
An unofficial integration of the Epic Online Systems SDK with Unreal Engine 4's OnlineSubsystem
Contributions:59 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
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