Neil Sarkar
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNeil Sarkar is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14+ years building games, developer tools, and consumer products from early-stage startups to founding his own companies. Currently co-founder at Void Industries after serving as Technical Director at Hat Games, he blends hands-on engineering with product leadership to ship polished indie game experiences and tooling. His background includes engineering and management roles at consumer-focused firms like Tinder and Splice, giving him experience scaling teams and systems under rapid growth. A Columbia Engineering CS graduate, he favors pragmatic engineering that prioritizes player experience and developer ergonomics—summed up on GitHub as "building yesterday's tomorrow for indie games." Known for moving fluidly between code and strategy, he brings an operator-founder mindset that accelerates small teams toward sustainable products.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
6,894reputation
383kreached
27answers
12questions
iphone
top-5%
ssl
top-1%
proxy
top-1%
ios
top-5%
Github Skills (86)
mobile-development10
proxy10
bundler10
javascript10
app-framework10
graphic10
rust10
audio-recorder10
opengl10
vulkan10
cross-platform10
thread10
android10
mobile10
nodejs10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
neilsarkar/pogp
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:107 commits, 46 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
neilsarkar/tempted
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 147 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 6 months
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