Vaugham Hong
Game Engineer at ClassDojo
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolVaugham Hong is a veteran game engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, cross-platform engines and interactive products from mobile to VR. He co-founded multiple startups where he designed end-to-end systems—multithreaded data-oriented ECS engines, custom 3D codecs, live-edit VR browsers, and full backend tooling—often as the sole or lead engineer. Currently at ClassDojo and still running Generous Games and uForis VR, he blends low-level C/C++ systems work (LLVM/Clang, GLES/Metal, ARM optimizations) with modern web and mobile stacks (React Native, NodeJS, Firebase). His work is characterized by pragmatic performance engineering—cache-friendly data layouts, job systems, async asset pipelines—and shipping production-grade features like shops, cloud saves, and DLC on constrained devices. Based in Vancouver, he pairs a University of Waterloo CS background with a knack for turning research-level ideas (3D compression, runtime RTTI generation) into shipped products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics Honours Computer Science, Computer Sceience, Bachelor of Mathematics Honours Computer Science, Computer Sceience at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
perl9
cpp8
linux8
windows8
swig8
cross-platform7
programming-language7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vaughamhong/spark
Jun 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
vaughamhong/freeimage
Feb 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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