Chris Pugh
Contract Software Engineer at Virtuoso Engine
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Pugh is a veteran independent game developer and contract software engineer with over a decade of production experience and two decades of hobbyist game creation. He combines deep graphics and driver expertise—formerly on AMD’s OpenGL workstation team and now contracting at Intel—with hands-on engine work as founder of Virtuoso Engine and creator of the retro FPS Killing Baby Hitler. Comfortable across custom engines, Unity, iOS/Android and low-level device drivers, he bridges systems programming and game design to ship playable, performant experiences. Based in Portland, he also runs The Coffee Industrial Complex doing bespoke game and app contracts, and his public work and tools are available on GitHub. An uncommon blend of driver-level graphics knowledge and solo indie development gives him a rare ability to optimize tech for creative gameplay.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (8)
cpp10
fileheader10
dialogue-systems6
unity3d5
opengl4
game-development3
glfw2
compiler1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VirtuosoChris/VirtuosoConsole
Aug 2013 - Apr 2021
Single-File header only C++ Quake-style console library.
Contributions:45 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 7 years 9 months
cppfileheader
VirtuosoChris/drkarnaugh
Jul 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 tag in 9 years 2 months
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