Sophia Baldonado
Senior Software Engineer at FirstLook.gg
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Baldonado is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building multiplayer and XR systems, game tooling, and creator-focused platforms. She designs and ships end-to-end features—from low-latency skeletal animation and RTC transmission layers to scalable backend services for matchmaking, social systems, and creator analytics. Comfortable across C++, C#, Swift, Node.js and AWS, she has a history of refactoring monoliths into distributed systems and shaping standards as a contributor to the OpenXR working group. Currently leading creator and content tools at FirstLook.gg after building developer-friendly multiplayer platforms at Pragma, she blends game development craft with production-grade backend engineering. Her background in film and digital media and early work on XR overlays and immediate-mode 3D debugging tools give her a practical eye for both UX and performance-sensitive systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at New York UniversityBachelor's Degree BBA in Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media, Bachelor's Degree BBA in Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media at The University of New Mexico
English
Github Skills (29)
openvr9
webgl9
oculus-quest9
openxr9
oculus9
svg9
canvas8
3d8
virtual-reality8
javascript8
threejs8
dmx5128
augmented-reality7
lua7
webgpu6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sophiabaldonado/betsy
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:91 pushes, 4 branches in 11 days
bjornbytes/LD35
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 30 pushes in 19 days
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