Eric Rollins Email & Phone Number

Eric Rollins possesses expertise in distributed systems, software engineering, python, linux, mobile devices and 11 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Eric is a true engineer, a flexible thinker, thorough designer and professional self-educator. This makes him invaluable for a wide variety of software projects. He offered multiple examples of this while at WhitehorseGames. FIRST, he wrote most of the code for the world's first major-license PDA video game, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR for PalmOS. At the time, there were almost no fast raster graphics programs on the platform, and it was not clear whether it could be done. Rather than shoot in the dark, he constructed true feasibility tests (fully loaded for actual runtime performance) to prove the biggest risks in advance. This sounds so simple, yet is so rare, and so rarely done well. SECOND, he based the golf game's physics on mathematical models he dug up in a research library, as no accurate models were then available on the Web. He had the humility to research the subject deeply first, rather than blindly (re)invent. Then he had the realism to back away from a pure physical model, balancing accuracy with speed and playability. THIRD, he wrote the first-ever neural network-based backgammon AI for a mobile device. This was technically interesting, but also an excellent design choice, as it offered very high AI speed, with good play quality, on a very low-performance device (16 MHz 68000). There are other examples, but these are representative."

Listed skills include Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Python, Linux, and 12 others.