First and foremost: if you send cold marketing email to my LightBurn address, you’re guaranteeing I will never use your service. Zero tolerance. I want my inbox back.I'm a tools wiz with a knack for optimizing everything from GUI's to data pipelines, and all the bits in between. I interface well between engineers and artists, and speak the languages of both. I work on runtime, rendering, UI, data pipes, and much more. I was formerly in the Tools & Technology group at 2K Sports / Visual Concepts, supporting the NBA franchise and all other 2K Sports titles from 2004 to 2016. I've been in the games biz since 1993, though I believe I come with more experience than baggage. I've written tech that is the backbone of dozens of AAA titles, across multiple platforms and studios.In my spare time I build lasers, CNC machines and flying robots.Specialties: Tools and GUI's, optimization, video codecs & data compression, data pipelines, multi-threading, and animation & rendering. I like to have my hands in a lot of pies, and I like a challenge.In my role at Apple I worked on cloud based and in-house tools to support the development of autonomous technologies for one of their Special Project Groups.Most recently I've ventured out into my own thing, running LightBurn Software since 2018, growing it from a side project for myself into a 20+ person company in 5 years.