Ben K. Email & Phone Number

Core developer on our internal game editor and engine.I make the game editor and associated tools the artists and developers use to make game content at Prodigy.

Burlington, Ontario

Game developer implementing game features. I work with designers, PMs, artists, and QA to produce core gameplay features for our game.

Kitchener, Canada Area

Startup company born out of KW Startup Weekend. I was a development lead and architect responsible for both front and back-end implementation and design; so full-stack development. Our software used Django, HTML, CSS, JS, and Python. Front end was done in native javascript and jQuery.

Guelph, Ontario

Doing build development and other DevOps tasks such as the creation of MSI install packages as well as signing and distributing the install files.During my time here I pretty much re-wrote the entire build system, which built several hundred solutions, reducing time from about 2.5 hours to 30 minutes. I also automated the entirety of the testing deployment which was previously a manual task.We used Nant and CruiseControl.net for the majority of our builds.

Developing games on the blackberry.

Developed middleware for a range of RFID Readers for 3 co-op terms

Co-op job

My first co-op job, maintained and developed the website - working mainly on scripts, database interaction and basic maintenance.