Given a choice, I would love all my work to be open source. Luckily I've had the opportunity to do some open source professional work in addition to my personal projects.
A ground up rewrite of the Unity 2D Roguelike Tutorial redesigned to use the Entity component system (ECS) architectural pattern.
I created this project as a proof of concept to see if ECS style games were a good fit for my work. Turns out they were and I ended up using this style of architecture in I, Falling Robot.
A Ruby library for parsing Apple's Mach-O binaries.
Used by the Skillz internally to id iOS binaries. I expanded and cleaned up this lib from an existing project and incorporated it into the Skillz Rails backend.
A plugin for the Cytoscape biological data visualizer.
This is a tool I developed to give scientists a clear view of OpenBEL data. OpenBEL is Linux foundation backed open standard for sharing biological data.
Simply put, I love games. There are a large reason that I got into programming in the first place. In 2016 I fulfilled a life long dream and started my own game company.
I, Falling Robot is a simple original mobile game that I designed and developed. I wanted to build something that took advantage of the natural input of modern smartphones, so the game uses the accelerometer coupled with tap and swipe motions for input.
When Skillz partnered with Zynga we wanted to put our best foot forward and release a custom version of their successful BackBreaker titles. I was asked to take on the BackBreaker codebase and redesign it for competitive online play. This involved creating new game modes, introducing dynamic difficulty and redesigning the UI.
Sadly as of August 2016, this project is no longer available on the App Store due to circumstances beyond my control.
First engineer at boutique software consultancy.
In addition to the senior position's responsibilities below, I was promoted to this role to reflect my growing influence beyond the product team to an office level.
Lead teams of Pivotal / client developers to build business-critical products using XP development practices (TDD, Pair Programming, CI/CD) in a highly collaborative environment.
Developed and released an original multi-platform mobile game, I, Falling Robot.
Took over customer-facing integrations role and worked with the business stakeholders to improve and launch games on the Skillz platform.
Joined Skillz pre-launch as the fifth engineer and played a crucial part in building out core technology for launch and subsequent funding rounds.
Worked with a team of developers to enhance and develop a biological data analysis platform for major pharmaceutical companies and in-house researchers. Duties evolved from enhancements of the previous platform to leading development on a new platform, and working on the Linux Foundation backed OpenBEL project.
Collaborated across departments to build custom solutions that solved a diverse set of problems.