Raihaan Sandhu
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Software engineer & game dev,
CS @ UofT.

Computer science student at the University of Toronto and Software Engineer Intern at IBM. Outside of class, I'm usually making games and the engines behind them.

github/linkedin/email/resume
experience
May 2026 — present

Software Engineer Intern

IBM

Working on the z/OS C/C++ compiler, contributing to compiler infrastructure for IBM's mainframe platform.

Sep 2024 — present

BSc Computer Science

University of Toronto

selected work
2nd place · Ubisoft Toronto NEXT
01

baggage

Solo

A crowd-simulation game where you guide hundreds of agents — running on a custom ECS engine I built from scratch.

  • A complete crowd-sim game, built on my own ECS engine in C++.
  • Real-time pathfinding and steering for hundreds of agents at once.
C++Custom ECS EnginePathfinding
view source
02

slashr

Lead programmer, team of 5

A God of War-inspired hack and slash. Weighty melee and enemies that fight as a group.

  • Combo system built on data assets, so designers can add attacks without touching code.
  • Lock-on targeting that picks the best enemy to fight next.
  • Behavior tree AI that has enemies surround you instead of rushing in one at a time.
UE5C++Behavior Trees
in development
03

glow-renderer

Solo

A deferred PBR renderer pushing hundreds of dynamic lights.

  • Deferred shading pipeline with physically-based materials.
  • Hundreds of dynamic lights via instanced rendering.
C++OpenGLPBR
view source
other projects

toygfs

A distributed file system in C over TCP, modeled on Google's GFS paper — chunked storage with 3× replication and auto-recovery.

c→

scholar-search

A search engine over 1M+ research papers — semantic ranking and an interactive citation graph.

python→

leetcli

A command-line interface for LeetCode. Submit and solve problems locally.

c++→

retrogb

Cycle-accurate Game Boy emulator with hardware-accurate graphics and full CPU emulation.

c++→