Robert Southgate
Lead WebGL Developer at Active Theory
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Southgate is a Lead WebGL Developer with 11 years’ experience building interactive 3D and AR experiences across WebGL, Three.js, Spark AR and Unity. Based in London, he combines shader expertise (GLSL/HLSL) with strong TypeScript/JavaScript and C# skills to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver polished web and camera-based experiences for agencies like Active Theory, Phantom and The Mill. He has progressed from front-end UI work to heading 3D departments, coordinating technical artists and developers to bridge creative vision and performant real-time implementation. Known for translating complex visual concepts into optimized shaders and cross-platform projects, he brings both design sensibility from a graphic design background and hands-on coding rigor.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
RavenswoodABC Diploma, Graphic Design, ABC Diploma, Graphic Design at Ravensbourne College of Design and CommunicationBA Hons, Media Studies, 2:1, BA Hons, Media Studies, 2:1 at University of BrightonWeb design certificate, Front-end web development, Distinction, Web design certificate, Front-end web development, Distinction at Hove creative college
English
Github Skills (5)
instagram4
instagram-api3
python3
threejs3
webgl1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
robsouthgate4/bolt-gl
Jan 2023 - Jul 2025
Low level WebGL library
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
webgl
robsouthgate4/threejs_sketches
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Little repo for storing any random stuff I fancy making
Contributions:35 commits, 8 pushes in 3 months
storingthree-jsfancythreejs
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