Summary
Robert Katz is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance C#/.NET and C++ systems across games, enterprise, and logistics domains. He blends deep low-level expertise—honed on titles like Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption—with full‑stack web and tooling experience (ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, HTML5), enabling productive, UX-focused applications. At Mark43 and prior roles he has driven backend architectures, optimized memory- and CPU-constrained systems, and automated profiling to uncover hard performance bottlenecks. Comfortable across desktop WPF, web front-ends, and multi-threaded game engines, he bridges creative and engineering teams to deliver polished, reliable products. Based in Charlotte, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with a music-engineering background, giving him an uncommon mix of audio systems knowledge and rigorous software engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor of Music (B.M.), Music Engineering Technology, minors in CS and EE, Bachelor of Music (B.M.), Music Engineering Technology, minors in CS and EE at University of Miami