Rynn Blackmon
Software Engineer at sift-stack
Hawthorne, California, United States
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Top SchoolRynn Blackmon is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience spanning systems engineering, C++ library development, and tooling with Nix, most recently contributing at Anduril and Sift. He blends performance-focused low-level work with full-stack sensibilities, demonstrated by optimizations and UI/VGUI improvements to the high-profile Garry's Mod sandbox project. Rynn treats each codebase as both a professional responsibility and a personal passion, driven to learn deeply and mentor the next generation of developers. Based in Hawthorne, CA, he brings practical game-dev experience alongside defense and systems engineering, able to move between animation/graphics optimizations and production-grade systems. Colleagues value his eye for subtle performance wins—like replacing velocity length calculations with squared lengths—that yield measurable runtime improvements.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.4 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.4 GPA at Capitol Technology UniversityDiploma, General Education, 3.4, Diploma, General Education, 3.4 at Yucaipa High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
lua10
game-development10
gmod-lua10
performance-optimization10
garrysmod10
regex6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Facepunch/garrysmod
Nov 2014 - Jan 2017
Sandbox mod for the Source Engine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rynn primarily focused on UI/VGUI improvements and optimizations within the Garry's Mod sandbox. They fixed button color issues in DColumnSheet and made adjustments to DFrame. Additionally, they implemented efficiency improvements in halo.lua, modifying lighting and stencil operations. They also optimized animation calculations by switching to squared velocity lengths, demonstrating an understanding of performance considerations in the codebase.
garrysmodluamodsandboxgarrys-mod
Luabee/Luabee
Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
lualinesmodgarry-s-modingame
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