Namkha Norsang
Lead Game Developer at Vajrapod
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNamkha Norsang is a lead game developer and generalist software engineer with eight years of experience building safety-critical and autonomous systems into polished products. He blends robotics-grade engineering rigor—state estimation, controls, motion planning and embedded systems—with game development expertise using C++ and Unreal Engine 5 to deliver AI-driven gameplay and robust core mechanics. His background spans helicopter autonomy at Sikorsky, autonomous flight software and team building at Merlin, and motion-planning work on commercial robots at DEKA, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency from low-level firmware to simulation and backend infrastructure. He’s also a founder who learned product-market and operational realities while building a web platform for homestay operators, an experience that sharpened his technical leadership and hiring instincts. Based in Massachusetts, he excels at leading multidisciplinary teams across engineering, art, and marketing to ship complex projects on schedule. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who brings research-grade techniques into production environments.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Automation Robotics & Control, Master of Science (M.S.) Automation Robotics & Control at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering (Maj.) / Computer Science (Min.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering (Maj.) / Computer Science (Min.) at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Nepali, Hindi, Tibetan, Bengali
Github Skills (7)
ros5
robotics5
robot5
pathfinding4
computer-vision4
cpp3
opencv2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Nam-Nor/autonomous-service-bot
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
Nam-Nor/Nam-Nor.github.io
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:20 pushes in 8 months
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