Evan Thomas Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• Develop innovative slot machine games that not only attract new demographics to gambling, but are also protectable through strong patents.
• Implement slot products using Unity and Unreal game engines that can be deployed to a variety of platforms (iOS, Android, HTML5, land-based hardware) and also meet the strict requirements of gaming regulation in.
• Graduate of the Iron Yard Ventures’ Hospitality and Gaming Accelerator.
• Invited speaker at the American Gaming Association’s Innovation Lab at the Global GamingExpo.

New York, NY, US

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of 10 engineers building a consumer application supporting both mobile (Unity) and Web (React, Next.js) platforms, supported by a gRPC and RESTful microservices backend written in Golang.
• Established engineering best practices and code standards with emphasis on producing readable, tested, clean code, through paired programming, code reviews, and whiteboard sessions.
• Regularly interface with product owners and stakeholders to elicit and translate requirements into concise engineer-ready product specs.
• Perform work breakdown by generating engineering tickets for the team and scheduling into work stream. Liaison with product owners and stakeholders to effectively prioritize tickets and triage unexpected requests. Own.
• Migrated DevOPs team to 100% infrastructure as code, with fully reproducible environments using Pulumi and Helm.

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

New York, US

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Contracted to maintain and update servers (PHP & MySQL) used by Nevada problem gambling clinics for client records.
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to make useful insights from limited data to improve the treatment of gambling addiction in Nevada.

• Worked with various inventors to develop game demos using the Unity game engine.
• Ran mathematical simulations on UNLV’s Cherry Creek supercomputer to ensure validity of best strategy, theoretical hold, etc.

Henderson, NV, US

• Worked within a small engineering team in a fast-paced startup where tasks changed daily and delivering projects quickly and efficiently was a must.
• Full-stack development on UAV management applications using MEAN stack.
• Prototyped and deployed remote-controlled laser circuit mounted to UAV for use in artexhibition at Life is Beautiful music festival.
• Wrote documentation and tutorials for use of hardware and software systems.
• Circuit design and PCB layout for various projects.Various tasks in software engineering, circuit design, and PCB layout. Tasks included web application development using the MEAN stack including front and back-end.

Henderson, NV, US

• Responsible for prototyping various applications of UAV platform for enterprise using Intel Edison and Arduino.
• Created training video for enterprise drone product to illustrate prototyping and deployment of solutions on the platform.
• Developed gas sensor attachment for UAV for remote sensing of gases in mines.
• Worked on floating-point math emulator for a microcontroller with no integer divisionsupport.