Ross Rothenstine
Staff Software Engineer at Liftoff Mobile
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Rothenstine is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems and large-scale ad delivery. He has driven performance and cost optimizations at Unity—rewriting rules engines, reducing service latency, and cutting infrastructure needs by 25%—and continued to lead cross-functional engineering work at Activision Blizzard Media before joining Liftoff Mobile. Ross blends deep advertising domain expertise with a generalist mindset, comfortable architecting data pipelines, ClickHouse-backed analytics, high-throughput Go services, and Kubernetes orchestration. He mentors teams on engineering best practices and often surfaces practical observability and testing improvements. Outside of ads systems, he’s a hobbyist game developer and 3D artist, which informs his pragmatic approach to performance and user-facing integrations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Akron
Spanish, English
Github Skills (90)
game-development10
game-engine10
open-source10
godot9
charts9
gdscript9
predix9
docker9
mopub9
kubernetes9
go9
database8
ads8
directives8
sql8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RossRothenstine/site
Mar 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 1 month
RossRothenstine/godot
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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