Seth Kingsley
Lead Software Engineer at AdHoc Studio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorSeth Kingsley is a Lead Software Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building high-performance, cross-platform systems for games, audio, and developer tools. He specializes in multi-core game engine architecture, real-time rendering and audio, native desktop and mobile GUIs, and low-level debugging—often rescuing hard-to-diagnose issues with or without source. His background spans shipping production game subsystems at Cryptic Studios, real-time audio work on Apple’s MainStage, and founding a streaming-focused search startup that indexed hundreds of thousands of streams. At AdHoc Studio he now leads engineering efforts, while consulting work has included reproducible NLP preprocessing pipelines and packaging legacy research tools for modern workflows. An active contributor to open-source projects and desktop apps (including UI improvements to a popular macOS Messenger wrapper), he combines systems-level depth with practical UX and build/CI expertise. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors, static analysis-driven design, and tooling that makes complex pipelines maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (15)
objective-c10
javascript10
webkit9
ui-design9
macos9
web-development9
user-interface9
cpu6
suppress6
porting6
twitter-bootstrap6
introspection6
makefile6
jquery6
freebsd6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rsms/fb-mac-messenger
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
⚡️ Mac app wrapping Facebook's Messenger for desktop
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 10 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Mac app. They addressed issues with window handling, including implementing workarounds for JavaScript functions like `window.open()`. The commits also included improvements like handling drag and drop and incorporating keyboard shortcuts for navigation, and the disabling of the context menu. Additionally, the user incorporated the ability to select newer/older conversations within the app.
electronmac-appmacfacebookwrapping
sethk/imgui
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Contributions:20 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
user-interfacedependenciescppgraphical-user-interfaceimmediate-mode
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