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Hi! I'm Matt Ringenberg, a hands-on full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience in software development, game design, VR, and emerging technologies. I specialize in building high-performance applications, cloud streaming, and networked solutions, and I enjoy solving complex technical challenges and contributing to open-source projects.\n\nAs President of TopVR, I lead development and release of multiple Steam games and VR experiences, including Take the Throne and Dungeon Survivors, and I'm currently building Exile Protocol. I love turning bold ideas into scalable, playable products and exploring innovations like motion capture, real-time streaming, and procedurally generated game worlds.…Hi! I'm Matt Ringenberg, a hands-on full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience in software development, game design, VR, and emerging technologies. I specialize in building high-performance applications, cloud streaming, and networked solutions, and I enjoy solving complex technical challenges and contributing to open-source projects.\n\nAs President of TopVR, I lead development and release of multiple Steam games and VR experiences, including Take the Throne and Dungeon Survivors, and I'm currently building Exile Protocol. I love turning bold ideas into scalable, playable products and exploring innovations like motion capture, real-time streaming, and procedurally generated game worlds.

Matt Ringenberg

Full Stack Developer, Game Developer, Game Designer, +2

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Hi! I'm Matt Ringenberg, a hands-on full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience in software development, game design, VR, and emerging technologies. I specialize in building high-performance applications, cloud streaming, and networked solutions, and I enjoy solving complex technical challenges and contributing to open-source projects.\n\nAs President of TopVR, I lead development and release of multiple Steam games and VR experiences, including Take the Throne and Dungeon Survivors, and I'm currently building Exile Protocol. I love turning bold ideas into scalable, playable products and exploring innovations like motion capture, real-time streaming, and procedurally generated game worlds.…Hi! I'm Matt Ringenberg, a hands-on full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience in software development, game design, VR, and emerging technologies. I specialize in building high-performance applications, cloud streaming, and networked solutions, and I enjoy solving complex technical challenges and contributing to open-source projects.\n\nAs President of TopVR, I lead development and release of multiple Steam games and VR experiences, including Take the Throne and Dungeon Survivors, and I'm currently building Exile Protocol. I love turning bold ideas into scalable, playable products and exploring innovations like motion capture, real-time streaming, and procedurally generated game worlds.

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Hi! I’m Matt Ringenberg, a hands-on full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience in software development, game design, VR, and emerging technologies. I specialize in building high-performance applications, cloud streaming, and networked solutions, and I enjoy solving complex technical challenges and contributing to open-source projects.\n\nAs President of TopVR, I lead development and release of multiple Steam games and VR experiences, including Take the Throne and Dungeon Survivors, and I’m currently building Exile Protocol. I love turning bold ideas into scalable, playable products and exploring innovations like motion capture, real-time streaming, and procedurally generated game worlds.

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Senior Engineer, Emerging Technologies at Spectrum / Charter Communications

January 1, 2019 - November 10, 2025

Led development of Cloud VR technology for standalone HMDs via real-time cloud streaming, achieving 60 FPS playback with a 50ms latency threshold. Drove Light-Field Streaming, enabling the first 6DOF stream of real-world video to a standalone VR headset. Engineered Holographic Streaming, transmitting 8Kx8K quilt video to Looking Glass 3D displays. Designed Eidolon, a 3D web conferencing application leveraging motion capture for digital avatars, reducing bandwidth by 99% compared to standard video streaming. Built a stateless middleware API to facilitate seamless communication between internal services and external billing systems, enabling secure and scalable integration. Authored 5 patents related to real-time streaming and motion capture technologies.

President and Lead Developer at TopVR

January 1, 2015 - November 10, 2025

Developed and released Take the Throne, an online multiplayer battle royale, securing $75K in funding. Developed and released Dungeon Survivors, an online co-op fantasy roguelite with host migration and procedural generation. Currently developing Exile Protocol, featuring procedural generation and co-op multiplayer. Created VR Paintball, the first multiplayer VR shooter on Google Play with 1M downloads. WIP projects include a Fantasy MMORPG with procedural dungeons and integrated ChatGPT-4 for NPC interactions, and Abandon Earth, an open-world VR multiplayer game with seamless island-based instancing and a scalable architecture for hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.

Software Developer Consultant at Self-Employed

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2018

Designed business websites, including shaka.org, and modernized backend databases. Developed custom APIs and integrated secure database solutions for web applications.