Nathanael Weiss
Senior Game Software Engineer at Wizard Fu, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNathanael Weiss is a senior game software engineer in Portland with over three decades of hands-on game development experience and 11 years in senior roles, specializing in gameplay systems and cross-platform C++ engine work. He has shipped multiple indie and AAA-quality titles—most notably Songbringer and Wraithbinder—delighting tens of thousands of players and architecting engines, AI, and scalable backend servers that supported up to tens of thousands of concurrent users. Comfortable leading small teams and collaborating with designers, artists and producers, he combines deep engine and graphics expertise (OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX) with practical release and deployment know-how across PC, console and mobile. Beyond coding, he has driven business development, live streaming, community-driven design, and even authored open-source tools and creative assets, showing a rare blend of technical breadth and indie creator spirit. An interesting detail: he built a multithreaded voxel engine and a ChatGPT-powered translation pipeline that can localize an entire game on demand.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Oregon Institute of TechnologyValedictorian, Valedictorian at North Medford High School
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Github Skills (45)
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nat-traversal10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NatWeiss/EntityFu
May 2015 - Jul 2016
A lightweight entity component system (ECS) written in C++.
Contributions:5 releases, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
cppentity-component-system
NatWeiss/RapidGame
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
A commandline tool for Windows, Mac and Linux that prebuilds cocos2d-x static libraries. Also a cross-platform game templating system.
Contributions:18 releases, 25 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
cocos2d-xcommand-line-toollinuxtemplatingwindows
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