William Armstrong
Principal Engineer at Monomi Park
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Armstrong is a Principal Engineer based in San Francisco with 18+ years crafting gameplay and systems for both AAA and indie titles, including lead programming on Firewatch and senior roles at Unity helping major projects adopt data-oriented architectures. He specializes in player-facing systems, physics/collision, event-driven rule systems and tooling that enable emergent gameplay, and has shipped features across multi-platform console and PC workflows. William blends hands-on engine and editor work with leadership—having built and led cross-disciplinary teams, guided remote transitions, and consulted on performance for ambitious Unity clients. He’s passionate about robust, data-driven systems that let designers and players create unexpected interactions, and has a track record of turning complex design requirements into practical tooling and runtime solutions.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science and Engineering, BA Computer Science and Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (10)
scene10
shader10
scriptable10
guid10
render10
post-processing10
unity3d10
pipeline9
unity-dots5
lancer1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/guid-based-reference
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
A component for giving Game Objects a GUID and a class to create references to objects in any Scene by GUID
Contributions:30 commits, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 8 months
game-objectssceneguid
william-w-armstrong/gameheads-turt
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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