About Me

Who am I?

Hey there! I’m Brian Baron, a software engineering manager in New York. Outside of work, you can often find me in the kitchen making food, in the garage tinkering, or in the basement fiddling with our home network equipment.

Fun facts:

  • I love cars from the 70s-2000s—I’m currently getting a MazdaSpeed 6 roadworthy.

  • My sourdough starter (Harold) is older than one of my nephews.

  • Somehow I’ve become the unofficial Rocket Science mascot—there’s a 7.5 ft tall cardboard cutout that lurks around the office.

I’m currently working at Rocket Science as a Software Engineering Manager.

I’m currently working at Rocket Science as a Software Engineering Manager.

My wife Kiera and I at Barnegat Lighthouse.

My wife Kiera and I at Barnegat Lighthouse.

Apollo is a gentleman and a scholar

Apollo is a gentleman and a scholar

Luna was rescued from a cat-hoarder, which caused her to have cauliflower ear from ear mites.

Luna was rescued from a cat-hoarder, which caused her to have cauliflower ear from ear mites.

My sourdough starter, Harold

My sourdough starter, Harold

Baron von Cardboard circa 2023

Baron von Cardboard circa 2023

Getting into games

When I was a kid, my lime green GameBoy Color kept me busy all hours of the day. I have a soft-spot for the GBA which spawned my favorite series, Megaman Battle Network.

I’m currently playing Metroid Dread, BattleBit: Remastered, Slay the Spire, One Step from Eden, and Apex Legends

Career Highlights

  • Currently I’m working as a Software Engineer at Rocket Science. The most recent contributions I can disclose were to Palia in Unreal Engine 5. Everything else is under NDA.

  • Most recently I’ve been living and breathing Unreal Engine 5—I also have experience in Unreal Engine 4, Unreal Engine 3, Unity, and propreitary engines.

    Frameworks include: ImGui, Xna/MonoGame, Allegro5, and SFML.

    I’ve worked in C, C++, UnrealScript, C#, GLSL, HLSL, Cg, AS3, and x86 Assembly.

  • For source control I’ve used Perforce, git, Mercurial (Hg) and subversion. Recently I’ve been using P4 + UnrealGameSync.

    I’ve experienced Jira, Confluence, ClickUp, Swarm, GitHub, BitBucket, and ReviewBoard for iterative project workflows.

    Whilst at Velan I worked in Wwise to implement audio states into our games.

  • Bacherlor of Science in Game Programming, Champlain College 2018