Obrien Summit
Founder & CEO at Expanxia
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolObrien Summit is a serial founder and technology executive with over three decades of experience spanning enterprise software, video game engines, and digital distribution. A former US Marine, he has built and exited multiple companies—most notably commercializing a global distribution platform with 30M+ installs—and repeatedly bridges deep engineering work with strategic corporate development. He led Amazon’s Game Tech efforts to open-source Lumberyard into O3DE and then helped shape Open 3D initiatives at the Linux Foundation, combining technical stewardship with foundation-level governance and licensing expertise. Obrien routinely spans roles from kernel-to-cloud architecture to board-level strategy, raising funds, negotiating enterprise deals, and creating go-to-market plans. Based in Jacksonville, FL, he currently runs Expanxia and the Open Metaverse Foundation, continuing to drive open-source practices for 3D ecosystems. Less obvious: he pairs hands-on patent-level engineering and pipeline design with long-term community building, making him as comfortable drafting technical specifications as leading industry coalitions.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Process / operations business finance and Programming, Masters Process / operations business finance and Programming at Self Educated School of hard knocks
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Github Skills (23)
3d-graphics10
game-engine10
animation10
3d10
game-development10
3d-engine10
graphic9
user-experience9
1password8
audio8
jekyll8
hugo8
artwork8
multiplayer7
sdl7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openmetaverse/community
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Community documentation for the Open Metaverse Foundation. You can find access and information to all of the foundational interest groups from this page.
Contributions:3 reviews, 28 commits, 3 PRs in 29 days
usabilityfoundation
OBWANDO/o3de
Jul 2021 - Oct 2023
Source for fully featured AAA Open 3D Engine
Contributions:45 pushes in 2 years 3 months
3d-engine
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