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We worked on a contract project to build a new, customisable slot machine engine for a 'social casino' app, which would integrate into their existing systems (back-end written in Java and running on AWS, and front-end built in Unity).I wrote a microservice for processing slot machine spins and a 'back office' web app where game designers would configure slot machines. I also handled deployment to AWS, using CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code, CodePipeline and CodeBuild for continuous delivery, S3 and RDS for storage, and EC2 VPCs to restrict external access to the service.I also provided technical support to the client company's engineers while they were integrating our engine into their infrastructure, and I contributed to some features in the Unity front-end portion of the project.

I returned to working on Furcadia full-time after I'd finished university. During this time I finished the browser-based Furcadia client and added a responsive interface, making it fully playable on mobile devices.I also worked to improve internal development processes - moving from the old-fashioned approach of developing in a staging environment that shared some expensive resources with production, and to a more modern approach where engineers could just run the game server on their own machine using Docker.This made it easier to build game updates and onboard new developers, and massively reduced risk as developers no longer needed to interact with the production services.

I was responsible for maintaining most parts of the MMO Furcadia during this time, including the game server (C, Linux), the legacy game client and the user-focused content creation tools (Win32 C++) and the web services.I brought Furcadia onto the web for the first time by building a browser-based client using TypeScript and WebGL, which began as a proof-of-concept and was then expanded to incorporate almost all the features from the Windows version, and released as a public preview for players.

I joined the team for Catnip's massively multiplayer online social game Furcadia and led a revamp of the game client's graphics system to support new features and effects for their "Second Dreaming" graphical updates. This included rebuilding the graphics editor from scratch using Qt, where I worked with the artists and UX designers to provide all the features they needed.