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Wouter van Oortmerssen is a Dutch programmer based in San Francisco whose work spans game development, engine technology, programming languages, and creative software tools. He currently runs VoxRay Games, his own games studio. His career includes work at Google on WebAssembly and game- and virtual-reality-related technology, including the creation of the FlatBuffers serialization library. He has also consulted for studios such as Maxis and Gearbox, worked on the original CryEngine and Far Cry at Crytek, and helped create the Guildhall master’s program in game development at Southern Methodist University.

Van Oortmerssen’s projects include the open-source Cube engine series, including Cube 2: Sauerbraten, and TreeSheets, a hierarchical spreadsheet for organizing information. His programming-language work includes Lobster, the Amiga E language, False, Aardappel, and Bla, as well as the Restructor refactoring system. He holds a PhD from the University of Southampton and a master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam, both related to programming-language research. His broader interests include photography, level design, game design, and natural languages.