Randair Porter
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRandair Porter is a software engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience blending deep algorithms and programming-language research with production systems and game development. Currently contributing to the C++ compiler at Microsoft, he previously built scalable services at Expedia (Kotlin, Java, TypeScript) and co-authored a PLDI-accepted paper on proof repair while researching compilers at the University of Washington. He founded Radnyx Games, shipping a browser hit (50k+ players) and engineering real-time AI, pathfinding, and GPU techniques to run complex simulations within 16ms frames. Comfortable across low-level systems and high-level services, he has practical expertise in compiler tooling, optimized code, LLM-powered services, and developer-facing reliability. Notably, he combines a lifelong fascination with programming languages and games to produce both research-grade compilers and commercially successful interactive software.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (35)
protocol-buffers9
game-engine9
serialization9
3d9
protobuf9
game-development9
api8
rpc8
binance8
open-source8
protoc8
godot8
marshalling7
cryptocurrency7
automated-trading7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Radnyx/GEM
Jan 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
Radnyx/crystal
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:63 commits, 58 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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