Thomas Madsen Email & Phone Number

I’m passionate about many things! I love programming and mathematics (enough to earn bachelor’s degrees in both!) and have a similar fondness for illustration, animation, as well as game design!I have experience with the following languages: Java, Kotlin, C, C++, C#, Python, MySQL, ActionScript 2.0My first experience with code was back in 2009, using the scripting language embedded in Adobe Flash. I was a kid at the time, and I already knew how to use Flash for its intended purpose of creating animations... but what I REALLY wanted to do was make games with it, and I figured I could do that if I knew how to add a little code!I wasn’t expecting this captivate me for very long. I figured I would spend a few months making little games, then… I would get bored, decide I’ve had my fill, and move on to doing something else.But writing code grabbed a hold of me like nothing else. I would keep returning to Flash with new ideas, constantly adding features to my silly little game project… It was a rough, uncoordinated, unbalanced, and poorly designed little game, but I loved it. I loved making it, I loved playing it, and most importantly, I never got bored of it; even after two years of development!When I started attending college, I decided to give the computer science major a try. I only tried a single course at first, but then… I took another, and another, and absolutely DEVOURED every topic being discussed. I only moved on to my non-computer classes after finishing almost every course being offered by my junior college’s computer science department! I was hooked.As time went on I would eventually learn the limitations of Flash, so I set my sights on stronger, more professional development tools. It took some effort to finally make the change, but I managed to teach myself how to use the Unity game engine (and C#) for developing games, as well as Android Studio (using Java and Kotlin) to develop Android applications. Additionally, two of my completed Android projects have been published the Google Play Store!Looking back, I’ve been writing software as a hobby for close to 15 years. I’ve grown a lot since that day in 2009, but I’m sure there’s still much more for me to do. I’m a quick learner, a self-starter, and am as thorough as I am hardworking with everything that I do. And it’s because I simply love making things! I have a passion for creation, and that’s what I intend to do for the rest of my life.

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  Software Engineer

  Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc.

  Oct 2023 - Present - Cerritos, California, United States