Ray Martone
Founder & Principal Architect at DoubleCat
Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Martone is a founder and principal architect with deep roots in interactive systems, shipping products from Xerox Star-era research to Zynga-scale live ops and modern web-first games. He blends low-level systems thinking (deterministic sync patents and custom encoding tricks) with pragmatic modern stacks, now betting on TypeScript + a custom React reconciler to make game development feel like app development. Ray has led engineering at startups that became industry leaders, driven multiplayer work in AAA stealth projects, and repeatedly built platforms that let teams ship faster. Based in Takoma Park, MD, he balances a tinkerer’s foundation in Smalltalk-era research with product-minded delivery—one example being an H.264-based PNG compression approach that cut asset sizes dramatically. Currently he’s building Warp 5, a platform aiming for console-grade graphics and zero-client-trust multiplayer from a single codebase, demonstrating a long-running focus on scalability, iteration speed, and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (34)
webgl10
javascript10
phaser10
tagging10
canvas10
rendering10
typescript10
browser10
logger10
isomorphic10
logging10
filtering10
backend10
typescript-definitions9
2d-game9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rmartone/missionlog
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
🚀 lightweight logging • supports level based filtering and tagging • weighs in at around 500 bytes
Contributions:7 releases, 286 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 4 months
browserloggerjavascriptloggingisomorphic
rmartone/rextoggleswitch
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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