Squad

Role

Chief Technology Officer: As the CTO I was responsible for architectural decisions, but I wrote a lot of UI, and reviewed the rest.

Technologies

TypeScript, React Native, RecoilJS, NodeJS, Buf, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform, Docker, ffmpeg, imagemagick, GCP, Bitrise, Postmark, Twilio, Firebase

Marketing copy

Have you ever imagined the internet, but with only just your friends? That’s what Squad is–the private, voice-only way to build a world with only the people you vibe with. Customized by you, and only you.

Squad is the fun, easy way to talk with your closest people everyday. These are your besties, your bae, your closest homies—or literally anyone you’d love to keep in contact with more regularly.

Want to live your life authentically and unbothered? We’ve got you. Privacy is our jam. All voice messages and status updates disappear in 24 hours. Boom! *mic drop*

Highlights

• Cross-platform mobile application using React Native. Third-party libraries and custom Swift/Kotlin.
• Everything updated live, from Connections to Messages, Freestyles to Polls.
• Updates were written via Protocol Buffers to NodeJS, emitted via Redis pub-sub and persisted via Postgres, and rebroadcast via Server-Sent Events to offline-capable Recoil atoms.

F!RST

Role

Officially Senior Platform Engineer building the Node backend, but after 60% of the team was laid off, one of two building a native iOS version.

Technologies

Swift, Storyboards (pre-SwiftUI), JavaScript (ES5), NodeJS, MongoDB, ZeroMQ, Appcelerator Titanium

Highlights

• Optimized for low-latency live updating. Meant to feel like a video game. Wrote a custom ZeroMQ messaging bus to lower latency further.
• Original "block" UI/UX, including hand-built animations on Swift and native iOS SDKs.

Marketing copy

Join the conversation about videogames and games culture. Chat live with likeminded gamers.

F!RST blends the best of live chat, social networks, message boards, and media sharing. It’s designed just for gamers, and it’s the first gamer community built specifically for your iPhone. Start conversations as you would in a forum with an image, YouTube video, web link, or comment and then chat about it live with other gamers.

F!RST can be shaped by subscribing to the games and subjects you care about, and to the people whose opinions matter to you most.

F!RST lets you shape and curate your experience so you can quickly chat with likeminded people whatever your gaming tastes; whether it's console shooters, PC RPG's or iPhone puzzle games.

Features

• Live chat about videogames with likeminded gamers
• Share images quickly and easily
• Find and share YouTube videos - link your own YouTube channel to easily share videos you've posted, liked, and favorited
• Share web pages by simply searching for the headline, and sharing the link
• Save specific topics to your favorites, for quick access to conversations that are important to you
• Live chat with players in Red Robot's Friendly Fire
• Icons and wallpapers for user profiles designed by former Bitmap Bros’ artist Dan Malone
• Help us build the best gamer community in the world.

38 Studios: Project Copernicus

Role

UI Engineer: Adopted ownership of the UI framework, build system, and many core services.

Technologies

Scaleform GFx, UnrealEngine 3, BigWorld, Flash, ActionScript 3, Perforce, XML, XSD, XSLT

Highlights

• Modeled the UI framework after the World of Warcraft UI, using ActionScript for behaviour and XML for layout, text, and metadata.
• Though I build the framework and many core systems (e.g. tooltips), the toolchain was used by 1 artist, 2 designers, and 3 engineers to flesh out the game UI.
• As an early engineer, I built some gameplay systems (e.g. inventory) from the BigWorld backend, to UE3 (e.g. paper doll), all the way through the UI.