Rob Kayson
Founding Engineer at Magic Circle Studio
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Kayson is a founding engineer and full-stack developer based in Oakland with a decade of experience building web and game-focused applications. Currently leading engineering at Magic Circle Studio, he builds next-generation party games that bring people together while drawing on prior roles at Patreon, Mutations Limited, and startups. His work spans web, VR, and interactive experiences—evidenced by open-source contributions to a next-gen VR interface repo where he implemented equippable items, tetherball mechanics, floating lanterns, and throwable darts. Trained at App Academy and UploadVR Collective and with a background in film studies, he blends engineering rigor with a strong sense for user-facing interaction and playful design. Driven by a long-standing, unconventional personal vision, he channels that passion into shipping tangible multiplayer experiences. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic creator who enjoys turning experimental ideas into polished, social software.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Film/Cinema/Video Studies at San Francisco State UniversityVirtual Reality Development, Virtual Reality Development at UploadVR CollectiveComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy
English, Japanese
Github Skills (2)
game-development10
javascript10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yozlet/interface
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Test platform for various render and interface tests for next-gen VR system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to an entity script for an equippable stick in a VR environment, adding functionality for tetherball mechanics including ball creation, actions, and line drawing. They later refactored the script by changing from grabbing to equipping the stick, fixing bugs, and refactoring the actions. Subsequently, the user added a floating lantern box that spawns floating lanterns, demonstrating experience with entity creation and manipulation within the VR platform. Finally, the user created dart scripts for a throwable dart.
rendervirtual-realitytest-platformopenvropenxr
MrRoboman/inceptiogram
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:254 commits, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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