Paul Zirkle
Software Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Zirkle is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years of experience building cross-platform game engines and mobile titles, and he currently focuses on distributed collaboration systems at Apple where he works with Operational Transforms and CRDTs and is a co-inventor on a related patent. He has led engineering teams at Disney Interactive and Grab Games and previously architected a portable 2D engine at Konami that targeted iPhone, Android, BREW, J2ME, Windows Mobile and HTML5. A strong polyglot developer (C/C++, C#, Objective-C/Swift, JavaScript, Java, PHP, HLSL) who’s shipped and ported dozens of mobile games, he combines low-level systems thinking with game and XR domain expertise. He also co-authored a practical iPhone game programming guide and has a track record of building tooling, content pipelines, and R&D initiatives that accelerate product delivery. Based in Cupertino and interested in collaborating with XR and gaming enthusiasts, he prefers technical conversations over recruiter outreach.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Southern California
English, Japanese, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
electron9
typescript9
editor8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
user-registration7
android6
google-play-games6
html5-canvas6
class-library5
elevator5
extension-methods5
2d-game5
reflection5
javascript4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
keless/EZPZ
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
Javascript HTML5 Canvas 2D game framework
Contributions:51 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 years 3 months
2d-gamehtml5-canvasjavascript
keless/RaidReactsBot
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
Discord bot for copying raid invite reactions for WoW
Contributions:9 PRs, 33 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 4 months
discord-bot
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