Roxanne Skelly
Engineering Manager at Linden Lab
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoxanne Skelly is an engineering manager in Seattle with 16 years of cross-disciplinary software experience spanning cryptography, cloud systems, virtual reality, and large-scale game and social platforms. She has rotated between IC and leadership roles at Microsoft, Linden Lab, High Fidelity and other startups, shipping high-performance C++ servers, spatial audio systems, and cloud provisioning tooling. Comfortable across stacks, she’s contributed to VR interface testing and fixed platform-specific C++/JS issues in open-source repos while leading teams that built blockchain-based virtual economies and microservice game backends. A founder of web platform projects and a published creative-writer (MFA), she blends technical depth with product sensibility and a knack for translating complex distributed systems into practical, deployable services.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Snohomish HSMaster of Fine Arts - MFA Creative Writing, Master of Fine Arts - MFA Creative Writing at Western Colorado University - School of Graduate StudiesBS ECE Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS ECE Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
windows7
linux7
javascript5
git4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yozlet/interface
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Test platform for various render and interface tests for next-gen VR system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Roxanne contributed to the `yozlet/interface` repository, which focuses on testing the interface of a VR system. Their commits primarily involved fixing platform-specific compatibility issues, such as handling `size_t` and `char` types on Linux and Windows, respectively, in C++ code. Additionally, they removed logging messages for expected behaviors and addressed a merge conflict. The user also made a small change in JavaScript (Fixing a typo).
rendervirtual-realitytest-platformopenvropenxr
roxanneskelly/hifi
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Open source client/server software for creating shared VR environments. Docs at http://docs.highfidelity.com We are hiring: http://highfidelity.com/jobs Also, PT work available at http://worklist.net
Contributions:243 pushes, 83 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 5 months
hiringoculus-questvirtual-realityworklistclient-server
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