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Daryn Brown

Full-Stack Engineer

// jamaica, jm · UTC-5

I make apps for fun

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Scouting report

Ambitious Rust shader transpiler; broad polyglot hobbyist

assessed from open-source footprint

Staff
67signal

Daryn's most intriguing project is Oxide Shader Transpiler — a Rust + LALRPOP shader compiler targeting GLSL and SPIR-V, a genuinely advanced undertaking despite only 1★. He's a polyglot solo builder (39 commits last year across Rust, Java, Python, Vue) on an 11-year account, though stars are minimal and abandonment is high (68%), with several Frontend Mentor practice pieces in the mix. Worth a look for compiler/graphics-curious or generalist roles where appetite for hard problems counts.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on oxide-shader-transpiler-rs
20 merged PRs39 commits / yr

What they build

Frontend48%
Backend26%
Data / ML10%
Mobile9%
Design5%

Industry experience

  • Web & CMS
  • Gaming
  • Travel, Food & Hospitality

Signal breakdown

Originality92
Impact64
Consistency75
Polish30
Stars

14

top repo 1

Original repos

25

22% forks

Followers

23

On GitHub

11 yr

Live demos

1

Activity

Active

68% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on oxide-shader-transpiler-rs
  • 20 merged pull requests
  • Original builder — 25 of their own repositories
  • Frontend focus with Backend
  • Domain experience in Web & CMS & Gaming
  • Core stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java