Early-stage startup focused on developing the future of AI-powered game development. Key responsibilities include:- assisting in technical direction-setting for the product- development of all AI-related functionality for Braindump, including prompt engineering, model choice, following research, and more- researching, building and deploying a 3D asset generation pipeline using state-of-the-art open-source techniques- developing and maintaining a comprehensive benchmarking suite to evaluate models and prompts across a variety of scenarios- observing and speaking to users to understand and improve upon AI usage patterns- exploring how to best implement AI into a traditional game editor, including collaborations with product and design leads

Early-stage startup focused on developing an advanced open-source ECS-backed game engine (> 3000 GitHub stars) and platform targeting both desktop/web and built atop Rust, WebAssembly, WebGPU, and more. Key responsibilities included:- assisting in strategic planning of technical/creative direction for the company- maintaining and evolving the game engine and platform in a product-driven manner including handling open-source PRs, code quality assurance, and release management- developing a client/server-side WebAssembly scripting system with a Rust/WIT API and networking capabilities- building a comprehensive semantically-analyzed package system with user-defined items in a TOML-embedded IDL- prototyping both product features and guest projects, including a flagship highly-modifiable vehicle combat game- writing and/or editing the majority of user-facing documentation to ensure a consistent tone and assumed knowledge- team development, including mentoring a junior programmer and on-boarding new team members- creating internal and external developer tooling and utilities

AAA game studio working with both first-party and third-party IPs. Worked on AAA title Contraband; key responsibilities in primary role as programmer included:- contributing to efficient synchronization of game state- ownership (including design/implementation/maintenance) of a server-based resource distribution system- development of internal tooling for debugging the state of the networking subsystem- investigating synchronization issuesResponsibilities in secondary role as craft lead included:- supporting and advocating on behalf of other members (8-10) of the craft- facilitating discussions and communicating outcomes to the core engine team- contributing to the level advancement process for members- organizing cross-studio craft team-building events

Customer data platform for retailers to allow for more effective engagement with customers. Primary responsibilities included:- building inbound and outbound integrations with external services using Python- full-stack development of the user-facing dashboard in Ruby on Rails and React- research into workflow improvement through user research with internal stakeholders- maintaining and adding to data ingest pipelines written in Scala- assisting analysis teams with data extraction

Early-stage agile start-up that developed a personally-managed two-factor authentication solution. Responsibilities included:- project lead on client SDKs for Java/TypeScript/PHP/Ruby/Go and on React/Redux Web SDK- project lead on product-integrated full-stack authorization manager, including development of frontend and backend- creating and maintaining a full-stack dashboard and application server- embedding with customer teams, including on-site visits, to assist in product integration- developing a suite of automated tests for applications, including browser automation- experimenting with alternate points of integration, including hardware (ESP32), web extensions, PAM-over-SSH, and more

Contract work for various organizations. Full-stack web design and development, low-level optimization of the D standard library, and more.