Rainer Selvet
Director, Games Engineering at Netflix
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolRainer Selvet is a seasoned games engineering leader and founder with over a decade of experience building cross-game systems and real-time 3D tooling. As Co-Founder and CTO of Ready Player Me he grew a widely adopted avatar platform used by 4,000+ companies and helped secure $72M from top-tier investors before taking on Director, Games Engineering at Netflix. He blends hands-on 3D and VFX craftsmanship from his early freelance work and Blender teaching with strategic product and platform scaling for the metaverse. Based in Tallinn, Rainer is known for connecting creative pipelines to robust engineering, driving interoperable avatar standards that aim to break down virtual walled gardens. A visible industry voice, he also engages publicly about the future of interoperable virtual worlds.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Systems Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Systems Engineering at TalTech – Tallinn University of TechnologyFocus on Mathematics/Physics, Focus on Mathematics/Physics at Pärnu Koidula Gümnaasium
English, Estonian
Github Skills (91)
authentication10
svg10
webgpu10
3d10
auth10
javascript10
browser10
react-native-webview10
editor10
jwt10
webgl10
electron10
typescript10
virtual-reality10
visual-studio-code10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
readyplayerme/Example-React-Native
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Ready Player Me embedded in a React Native WebView
Contributions:13 commits, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 8 months
react-native-webview
readyplayerme/Example-iframe
May 2021 - Feb 2022
iframe integration example for https://readyplayer.me/
Contributions:4 reviews, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
iframe
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