Russell Speke
Junior C Developer at Psiclone Games Ltd
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Speke is a Junior C++ developer with a decade of hands-on experience building games and immersive experiences, currently focused at Psiclone Games Ltd. He combines a formal background in Computer Games Development (Master’s) with practical skills in C++ and a clear interest in virtual reality. An active contributor to the PixiJS ecosystem, Russell has improved text rendering fidelity—fixing word wrapping, gradients, font issues and TypeScript docs—demonstrating attention to both visuals and developer ergonomics. He pairs front-end polish with low-level implementation know-how, and his prior role as a university student ambassador highlights strong communication and public-facing abilities. Passionate about pushing visual quality in interactive software, he brings a blend of creative game design instincts and pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Computing, Computer Games and Programming Skills, Master of Computing, Computer Games and Programming Skills at University of South Wales
English
Github Skills (9)
webgl10
javascript10
pixijs10
render10
rendering10
canvas9
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pixijs/pixijs
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Russell primarily contributed to the text rendering aspects of the PixiJS library. Their work involved fixing bugs related to word wrapping, text gradient implementations, and font rendering issues. They also made minor documentation fixes for TypeScript definitions and addressed padding issues impacting text rendering. The user's contributions focused on improving the visual fidelity and functionality of text-related features within the rendering engine.
gamefastesthtml5glsljavascript
TheWyo/vscode
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiontypescriptvisual-studio
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