Ryan Christensen
Game Developer at Drawcode
Chandler, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Christensen is a versatile game and interactive application engineer with 14+ years building mobile, web, desktop and console experiences—from custom C++ engines to Unity, Unreal and WebGL. He blends deep systems and networking expertise (client/server, Protobuf/gRPC, WebRTC, custom sockets) with product-driven design and shipping experience across studios and startups, most recently contributing to Pokémon GO social features at Nerd Ninjas/Scopely. Ryan has led architecture and standards work in domains as varied as mortgage registry integrations and real-time multiplayer games, pairing RFC/market-standards implementation chops with creative gameplay systems. Comfortable across C/C++, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python and emerging languages, he often bridges tooling, content pipelines and live-service backend concerns. Based in Chandler, AZ, he runs product research through his Drawk/Drawlabs ventures—an owner-developer who still ships code and prototypes in bleeding-edge AR, WebXR and 3D web tech.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSE Software Engineering / Computer Science, MSE Software Engineering / Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBS CS Computer Science / Technology, BS CS Computer Science / Technology at University of Phoenix
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Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drawcode/game-lib-games
Aug 2013 - Jan 2023
Unity C# game lib scripts game level.
Contributions:900 commits, 15 PRs, 67 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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drawcode/game-lib-games-ui
Oct 2019 - Jul 2026
Game library for game dev related to UI (Unity/NGUI)
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 9 months
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