Philipp Welsch
Staff Software Engineer at Magic Leap
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPhilipp Welsch is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in game engine and core technology for AAA titles, now working on the software stack for Magic Leap’s AR headsets. He excels at low-level systems—I/O, memory, multithreading and scene management—and has a strong focus on high-throughput open-world streaming, tools and pipelines that enable large, dense, high-fidelity worlds. A pragmatic generalist, he regularly contributes across scripting, serialization, simulation, animation and culling systems while mentoring peers and guiding long-term engine direction. Philipp follows emerging languages and distributed systems research (Rust, Zig, ML/AI and programming language theory), which informs his preference for simplicity, clarity and maintainable high-performance designs. He combines console, PC, mobile, VR and web experience, bringing a rare breadth that lets him diagnose tough problems from multiple angles and rebuild the right low-level “wheel” when necessary.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Multimediatechnology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Multimediatechnology at Fachhochschule Salzburg
German, English
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Github Skills (19)
pointer6
code-organization6
validation6
parent-child6
unreal-engine-46
matrix5
vulkan5
javascript4
vector4
math4
react4
computer-graphics3
game-development3
game-engine2
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
in0x/in0x.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
My portfolio
Contributions:68 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
javascriptreact
in0x/Fligth-Game-
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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