Raheel Yawar

Raheel Yawar

Software engineer in the Bay Area. I've worked on developer platform engineering, game engines, game engineering, game tools, and AI. I write tech articles and also wrote a historical biography.

Work

2011 — 2026
A deserted village building surrounded by overgrown trees in HOME. HOME. — Global Game Jam 2019

Portfolio

A C# runtime for interactive fiction. A machine learning system inside a DreamWorks RPG. A city-builder in Godot. Creator tooling at Meta. And about forty HTML5 games for European broadcast television.

Personal & professional · 8 featured, 40+ shipped

The book

2024
Cover of The Keeper of the Lighthouse: A Migrant's Story

The Keeper of the Lighthouse

When my grandfather was 16, the Indian subcontinent was split in two, and he unexpectedly found himself on the wrong side of the border. As the communal violence began, he was tasked with taking his family across the border from India to Pakistan on foot. Along the way, he narrowly escaped a massacre and malnutrition. Reaching the other side, he had almost no material possessions to his name, but he used his wits and his own two hands to make a life for himself. He participated in two wars, and spent the rest of his life shaping public policy.

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Publications

Substack · weekly

Game Programming Weekly

A Monday newsletter about game programming, development, and industry.

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Medium · essays

Blog

Articles and musings on tech, game development, programming, books and personal experiences.

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