Sam Gates
Senior Software Engineer at VRChat Inc.
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolSam Gates is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in game and VR development, currently advancing real-time social and immersive experiences at VRChat. He has a strong Unity3D and C++/C# background, building everything from motion-capture backends with RabbitMQ to AI-driven game entities and production VR prototypes. Sam’s career blends research work at the University of Maine’s VEMI Lab with studio experience at Helios Interactive and Freeman, giving him a pragmatic research-to-product perspective. Based in Portland, Maine, he’s known for simplifying complex technical problems into creative, user-focused solutions and mentoring teammates through hands-on guidance. Off the clock he jokes that he’s an “aspiring wizard,” reflecting a playful curiosity that fuels his continual exploration of new tools and techniques.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Maine
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Github Skills (15)
intellisense8
interactive-programming6
clojurescript5
vscode5
shadow-cljs5
clojure4
shadow3
re-frame2
frame2
reagent2
leiningen2
rum2
extensibility1
garden1
cider1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Turmolt/Chromancy
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
Turmolt/turmolt.github.io
May 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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