A research driven, non-profit organization partnering to help all kids learn.

• • Worked on tools to edit, render, and score test questions
• • Flexed onto other teams working on authentication, test taking, and content publishing
• • Front End: AngularJS, MassageJS (our own state driven 'framework')
• • Backend: Node.js, Express
• • Cloud: API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, CloudFront
• • Ops: Terraform, Docker, Jenkins
• • Other: Git-mergency first responder, occasional iOS work

A platform for teachers, students, and parents to teach, track progress, and reward students.

• • Developed API endpoints using Node.js+Express.js for web and native clients
• • Migrated legacy learning curriculum to fix Common Core Standards
• • Designed MongoDB data schemas for new features and audited/fixed legacy data
• • Dockerized platform services on Amazon EC2 Container Service for high scalability and resilience

• • Translated high-level company initiatives to actionable user stories
• • Used project management software to assign/track work for team of 4-6 people
• • Took feedback from engineers and leadership to iterate process

An iOS client for the Goldstar API service. Find events, purchase tickets, and go out more.

• • Built new features, improved old features, fixed bugs, the usual!
• • Added support for both iOS 7 and iOS 8 features, including Handoff, a Today Widget, and more
• • Mastered Auto Layout for building new UI, upgrading old components when necessary

Touch-based tool/game to design clothing and outfits with hundreds of details, colors, and clothing patterns

• • Wrote code, built UI, helped lead team of engineers to build UIKit app
• • Lead transition to using Interface Builder + code for designing views
• • Used CoreData to manage application information + user state
• • Helped build over the air content delivery and asset management system
• • Rapidly prototyped new features, iterated quickly with changing design constraints

A secret, unreleased project, matching hardware iPhone accessories, synchronous multiplayer, and first person shooter dueling.

• • Helped build and maintain peer-to-peer synchronous multiplayer system
• • Built in game GUI for In-App purchases, character selection, weapon upgrade system

Help 'customers' by creating original fashion designs. Compete against others with your design skills

• • Designed architecture for successful social game
• • Application largely based on key-value storage of User Generated Content
• • Contributed towards/Oversaw all aspects of backend code development
• • Managed team sized from 1-5 developers

• • Seconds title to utilize Mojo CMS system
• • Architected and oversaw work on additional tools for in game quest system and new content creation tools

Design and manage your own boutique. Customize your avatar and compete in fashion shows

• • Designed/wrote code architecture for successful social game
• • Application designed on custom LAMP stack, hosted on EC2
• • Trust-no-client state-engine design
• • Peaked at over 1,000,000 daily active users
• • Additionally utilized Redis and membase
• • Managed team sized from 1-5 developers

• • Created CMS system known as Mojo for content/gameplay control
• • Over 20,000 in game items managed through the system
• • Dashboard for custom tracking, AB testing control panel and reports
• • Primary tool for Customer Service and in-game Translations
• • Used for ad campaign delivery/tracking for custom in game brand engagements

Combine and clear balls with dozens of effects/modes/objectives

• • Built using iOS's SpriteKit Framework
• • 100 unique levels with dozens of mechanics
• • Includes In-App Purchases, GameCenter, iCloud game saves
• • Puzzly

Take turns with a friend trying to guess the same word

• • Built using UIKit, GameCenter with turn-based matches
• • Functional prototype in 2 weeks
• • Polished gameplay, iterated on design (shout out to Erik Hindman), added features and released on the AppStore
• • Dozens of DAU!

A site where users can browse and create lists of things. Anyone can add to any list, vote on their favorites

• • Built on Ruby-on-Rails 2.3
• • jQuery and jQuery UI throughout site
• • Ajax commenting, pagination, voting
• • Currently out of commission, Heroku requires Rails 3 and I haven't upgraded her
• • Fact: Having no production screenshots, this one has only dummy data =(

A showcase of many of my recent works of code.

• • Custom Programmer level "design"
• • HTML standards
• • Recursion

Work with a buddy to escape prison, and other things that go bump in the night.

• • Co-op, side-scrolling, hyphen-inducing beat-em-up
• • Lots of character animations and rope physics
• • Did we mention there's a WEREWOLF? Oops, spoiler alert.

Sling your little wrecking ball around and around. Make it through 8 waves of battle to face your final challenge - The Mother of Mayhem!

• • Gesture + Physics control scheme
• • Precise cinematic boss sequence with music, sounds, animations
• • Taught my fellow programmer teammate Objective-C and SpriteKit during the Jam

Discover the complex interpersonal relationships of our four space explorers through this 4 player, point-and-click narrative experience.

• • Created a generic prerequisite information/progress tracking system for flexible content demands
• • Used SpriteKit to quickly build a fluid, reactive environment

Farming is TOUGH. Drive four different farm vehicles across your plot as efficiently as possible to maximize your yield. Careful though, the vehicles probably could use a tune up - or maybe you need to take it easier on the vodka.

• • Used blitting system to sample different bitmaps and give field clearing effect.
• • All artwork, including tractors, field layers, menu screens

Manually pump a heart faster and faster until either it explodes or your arthritis does... Press the listed keys to Open the valves and the others to Pump the chambers

• • Keypress synchronization, combo identification, etc. There's more built than was used, doh.
• • Gameplay/controls to animation coordination

Explore the grotesque chambers of the bestiary. Round 1: Type what you see. Round 2: Drag and drop. Round 3: Type adjectives that match

• • Coordinated project that had far more phases than any other game jam game I've worked on
• • Came up with each narrative, the associated hints/fears of enemies, noun/adjective lists etc.

• • Co-Ran the entire Game Jam for our company with coworker Alec Ditonto
• • Inspired from a GDC mini talk, I worked to get our company approval/support. It was a blast, we made 8 games with 40 people.

Escape the center of the universe. As time passes, stars move further apart. WSAD to move/turn. Red = Fuel, Green = Maneuverability, Blue = Time Warp (Space to go activate)

• • Built the universe generation system. You can replay the same seed each time or generate a new one
• • The universe shrinks over time, with all planets moving towards the center. Reversible velocity for time warp

Extinction simulation game. Each entity on screen has attractors/repulsers to meet its needs. Exterminate the required species.

• • Worked on the entity attraction/repulsion system
• • Built external tunability functionality into game for easy tweaking of entity behaviors