# Ray Sun

> Senior Software Engineer at Roblox

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raysun

Studied at the University of Waterloo:
Computer Science co-op program

Interested in:
Algorithm design, computer graphics and artificial intelligence.

Likes:
Automation, VR, 3D printing. 

Hobbies:
Drawing and clay sculpting.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2020 – Present
-Working on the avatar team

### Software Engineer @ Ubiquity6 Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Developed systems and algorithms for generating looped fly-through of 3D meshes
-Created 3D capture assistant tools using ObjectiveC and GLSL
-Developed VR controls for exploring 3D captured real world spaces using WebVR
-Worked on frontend of Display.land app in React
-Worked on AR prototype games, applications and tools

### Software Engineer @ Jam City
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | United States
-Developed a single step pipeline tool in Python for game asset integration, validation and automatic corrections. The tool reduced the workflow time from one week to under one minute per release cycle.
-Created duplicate asset search tool in Python, which carries out image analysis over tens of thousands of game files to reduce build size and project entropy.
-Integrated Appium framework into unity games for automated on device testing, alleviating QA workload on redundant tasks.
-Designed and implemented a new particle system for Starling based games from scratch. Resulting in improved frame rate (ongoing optimizations), data simplicity, physics, artist turn around time and visual aesthetics.
-Developed a tool for editing and exporting particle effects quickly (going from nothing to having an effect displayed in game within minutes)
-Implemented game features including UI systems and game mode logic in AS3.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area
-Developed tagging feature in Java for Redshift resources and customer facing APIs in order to support easier organization of clusters using metadata.
-Designed node placement algorithm to minimize the risk of data loss on clusters.
-Implemented warm pool load balancer to reduce long-term usage of EC2 instances using a SQL back end.

### Software Developer @ Tulip Retail
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Kitchener, Canada Area
-Implemented Well.ca features using HTML, CSS for front end and PHP for back end.
-Developed a ticket tracking web app using JQuery and SQL to generate periodic reports.
-Created front end widget for compiling Solr queries and displaying dynamic product lists.

### Software Developer @ Crank Software Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Ottawa, Canada Area
-Developed Storyboard Suite features and tools in Java.
-Created standalone Eclipse RCP application using Storyboard plugins with revamped UI.

### Software Developer @ Autodesk
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Toronto, Canada Area
-Designed and implemented Maya HUD API along with localization features using Qt in C++.
-Debugged issues relating to UI, localization and core components in Maya.

### Software Developer @ Environment Canada
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Ottawa, Canada Area
-Developed systems for image encoding and post-processing using ArcObjects(ArcGIS) in C++ and VB.net
-Created Python scripts for map filtering, HTML parsing, automated downloading of remote data and file management.
-Improved XML parsing tools for importing satellite images (RADARSAT and MODIS)


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ray-sun-71a56925

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Last updated: 2026-03-22