Walter Gray
Staff Software Engineer at Zeromatter
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Gray is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berkeley with 11 years of deep C++ experience across games, desktop software, and production systems. He has a track record of shipping complex features—from porting AAA titles and building installers and auto-update systems to designing APIs, networking libraries, and cross-platform build automation. At companies like Leap Motion, Cruise, Tesla, and now Zeromatter he’s led cross-disciplinary teams and driven platform refactors, hardware-integrated firmware work, and C++11/14 modernizations. Walter thrives on ambiguous problems that require learning new domains and prefers pragmatic, low-ego execution to get products into users’ hands. He’s motivated by projects that affect the physical world—reducing resource use, enabling scientific analysis, or empowering people with practical tools. An under-the-radar strength is his long-running focus on build systems and reproducible tooling, making complex codebases far easier to maintain and ship.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Japanese
Github Skills (87)
json-parser10
gnu-make10
python10
zero-copy10
printf10
inversion-of-control10
protoc10
floating-point10
cpp10
ninja10
javascript10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
ranges10
mmap10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
yeswalrus/protobuf
May 2016 - Jun 2017
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Contributions:2 PRs, 77 pushes, 72 branches in 1 year 1 month
protocol-buffersbinary-datagoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatprotobuf
leapmotion/external-libraries
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Build scripts for various libraries
Contributions:11 PRs, 168 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 1 month
build-scriptsbash
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