Steven Yau
Senior Web Rendering Engineer With Phaser, WebGL, TypeScript at Pantaloon
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Yau is a Senior Web Rendering Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building high-performance WebGL and TypeScript experiences for games and virtual spaces. He leads small engineering teams and has driven down production bugs by overhauling legacy rendering code and instituting robust test plans, while prototyping delightful interaction features for Gather’s Virtual Office. Previously he managed partner relations and developer support for PlayCanvas at Snap, shipping engine improvements, tutorials, and integrations with WebXR/WebGPU partners and improving NPS to 100. A hands-on contributor to the PlayCanvas engine, he’s fixed tricky camera math and made movement frame-rate independent—skills that reflect deep graphics and UX instincts. Outside core engineering he mentors teams, lectures on game development, and quietly backs UK games startups as an angel investor.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Games Programming, MSc, Games Programming at University of HullBSc, Games Computing, BSc, Games Computing at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (8)
webgl10
javascript10
game-engine9
3d-graphics8
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
game-development7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
playcanvas/engine
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 252 reviews, 129 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the PlayCanvas engine. Their work focused on adding and improving the orbit camera functionality within the engine, including fixing bugs related to finding the shortest path on the yaw axis and making the camera's movement frame rate independent. They also worked on documentation, examples, and integrating view source buttons.
javascript-gamejavascriptjavascript-game-engineplaycanvasnodejs
playcanvas/playcanvas-rest-api-tools
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
A set of tools to use with the PlayCanvas REST API for common jobs such as downloading a build and archiving a project
Contributions:19 reviews, 27 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 8 months
downloadingapiplaycanvasrestrest-api
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