Nick Klingensmith
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick Klingensmith is a Senior Staff Engineer and seasoned XR and game development specialist with over a decade of experience building engines, tools, and polished products from prototype to ship. He leads development on StereoKit (an easy-to-use C# OpenXR engine) at Qualcomm after authoring and maintaining the same MR middleware at Microsoft, bringing deep OpenXR, Unity, and graphics expertise. Equally comfortable in low-level back-end work and front-end aesthetics—bolstered by a minor in art and years of photography—he crafts visually clean, performant systems and developer tools. A longtime teacher and mentor who still competes in coding and game jams, he frequently prototypes novel ideas and contributes practical fixes to open-source XR projects.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteAS, Simulation and Game Development, AS, Simulation and Game Development at Central Piedmont Community College
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Github Skills (6)
openxr10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
develop5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
StereoKit/StereoKit
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
An easy-to-use XR engine for building AR and VR applications with C# and OpenXR!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 78 reviews, 2652 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the OpenXR backend implementation by testing for the presence of the OpenXR backend, added a test for it. They revised the soft keyboard layout to improve binary size. In addition, the user made a few code changes, fixing small issues.
oculus-questrealityvr-applicationscsharp-libraryvirtual-reality
StereoKit/StereoKit-Docs
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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