Reuben Dunnington
Senior Software Engineer at Riot Games
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReuben Dunnington is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building performant systems and game engines, currently focusing on performance analysis and implementation at Riot Games. His career spans AAA studios and indie teams—343 Industries, Team Kaiju, Ember Entertainment, and multiple roles at 5TH Cell—where he shipped gameplay and systems software across consoles and live services. Reuben enjoys working with easygoing yet passionate colleagues, learning new technologies, and tackling hard technical challenges that drive player and business value. He’s motivated to ship profitable games, empower teammates, and transition from contributor to owner, bringing both hands-on engineering and a systems-level perspective. Based in Seattle and trained at DigiPen, he combines low-level systems expertise with a rare patience for measuring and communicating perf tradeoffs to cross-functional teams.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at DigiPen Institute of Technology
English, American Sign Language
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Github Skills (38)
programming-language10
wasi10
c1110
interpreter10
zig10
toolchain10
compiler10
headers9
shader9
virtual-memory9
clang9
usermode9
hlsl9
webassembly9
multi-process9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rdunnington/zig-stable-array
Aug 2022 - May 2026
Address-stable array with a max size that allocates directly from virtual memory.
Contributions:1 release, 23 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 9 months
virtual-memoryzigzig-package
rdunnington/rdunnington.github.io
May 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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