Steven Behnke
Senior Software Developer at SpaceX
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Behnke is a software architect with 11+ years of experience building high-performance C++ systems for games and platform infrastructure, currently shaping architecture at Zynga. He has a track record of modernizing legacy codebases—bridging C and C++ layers, integrating new rendering engines, and enabling server-based gaming experiences—while also shipping cross-platform titles on iOS, Android, Kindle and web. Comfortable in many languages (Swift, Java, Objective‑C, Rust) and toolchains, he excels at pragmatic interoperability and performance optimization. Outside software he pursues professional photography with multiple certificates and an AAS, bringing a visual and detail-oriented sensibility to UX and tooling. An Amateur Extra class ham radio operator, he combines hands-on electronics and maker skills with software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Burnsville HighschoolNormandale Community College
Spanish
Github Skills (67)
c9910
microarchitecture10
cpu10
windows9
lua9
catppuccin9
ios9
cross-platform9
android9
electrical-engineering9
emscripten8
clion8
animation8
arm8
game-development8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sbehnke/SwiftlyRT
Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 130 commits, 57 pushes in 3 years
sbehnke/MCProfiles
Mar 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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