Minh Le

Minh Le
Minh Le
Born	June 27, 1977; Vietnam
Nationality	Canadian
Other names	Gooseman
Alma mater	Simon Fraser University
Occupation	Video game programmer
Years active	1996-present
Employers	Valve (2000–2006); FIX Korea (2009–2013); Facepunch Studios (2013–2018); Pearl Abyss (2018–present);
Known for	Co-creator of Counter-Strike

Minh Le (Vietnamese: Lê Minh; born June 27, 1977), also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese Canadian video game programmer who co-created the Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999 and started the Counter-Strike series. He was later employed by Valve, the developers of Half-Life, and worked for 8 years in Korea on the multiplayer first-person shooter Tactical Intervention. He is a contractor on the multiplayer survival first-person shooter Rust. In the small-team games that he has worked on, Le has been a programmer, modeler, and designer.

His nickname comes from Shane Gooseman, one of the main characters of 1980s cartoon series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.

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