Reed Garmsen
Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReed Garmsen is a software engineering lead with 11 years of experience building high-performance graphics and front-end systems, currently leading the PC development team for Forza Motorsport at Microsoft. He has deep expertise in rendering and engine work across multiple roles at Microsoft, combined with a strong history of internships at Google and early full‑stack open-source contributions to Mattermost. Reed blends low-level graphics engineering with practical UI/UX improvements—his open-source work on Mattermost shows attention to accessibility and usability in React and JavaScript. He mentors and teaches, having served as a graduate-level instructional assistant in computer graphics and animation, and repeatedly reduces developer friction through automation and tooling. Based in Sammamish, WA, he is comfortable shipping across the stack from engine intern prototypes to shipped AAA PC features. A detail that stands out: he has moved fluidly between game engine intern prototypes, production rendering, and front-end open-source contributions, demonstrating both breadth and deep technical craft.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (6)
uid10
javascript10
develop10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:342 commits, 138 PRs, 282 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Reed primarily contributed to the front-end of the Mattermost application, focusing on UI/UX improvements and bug fixes. The contributions included fixing and modifying UI elements and adding functionality to enhance the user experience, as seen in the changes to comment creation and team invite interfaces. They also worked on improving the accessibility and usability of features like file previews, and adjusting the time display in settings. The contributions centered on the React and Javascript code base.
golangsecuredevelopment-lifecyclelifecyclereact-native
joncatanio/GrannyGauntlet
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:190 commits, 51 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 months
gamepolycalgame-developmentcross-platform
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