SOFTGAMES specializes in hyper casual web based mobile games, primarily for Facebook Instant games.

My responsibilities at SOFTGAMES has been to develop their Android/iOS wrapper's which run their games in a WebView making bridge calls (JavaScript to Kotlin/JavaScript to Swift) to custom wrapper functionality.

Implementing wrapper functionality such as managing player data in Firestore and handling player data conflicts/resolution.

Implementing CI/CD pipelines to run unit test, build, and deploy their games to the Google Play and Apple App store. The pipeline was written using GitHub action for iOS and GitLab runners for Android.

Managing the release cycles for Solitaire Story TriPeaks and Free Solitaire Farm: Harvest Seasons.

SauceCode specializes in software development and consulting. SauceCode developed Tistro, a productivity and time management tool, used to help find ways to better manage human capital.

Tistor was built using a Node.js stack with ElectronJS for the desktop app, and React.js, Redux.js & Feathers.js for the web API layer.

While with SauceCode I was outsourced to work in Melbourne, Australia to complete and launch a product called MovePal. The product was built using an entirely JavaScript/TypeScript stack, using React.js with Feathers.js as the API layer and React Native for the iOS and Android apps.

Notable tech while working with SauceCode: Python Django, OpenCV, Octal Character Recognition, YOLO image recognition, haar cascade training, and many Python libs such as, Numpy, Scipy and Pytorch.

Habanero System specializes in browser based video slot machine games for online casinos. To see a list of games they have developed click here.

Habanero has a custom built game framework which is built on top of many JS libraries. The core library being PIXI.js which is the render/WebGL library, used for drawing graphics. My work at Habanero consisted of implementing new features into the game framework.

I learnt back-end algorithms for video slot machine games, probability, frequency and random number generators. Including, how particle swarm optimisation algorithms and genetic algorithms can be used to generate reel strips.

Notable tech I learnt: Java and LibGDX. LibGDX is a Java game development framework that's cross platform so you can write your code in Java and deploy to iPhone/Android and web browsers.

Notable events while working with Habanero: Habanero took me to ICE, a iGaming trade show in London.

ISOBAR is an advertising agency similar to Ogilvy. The work I completed was a continuation of Ogilvy, custom WordPress/Craft CMS and Umbraco CMS sites, custom php plugins, using React.js, WebPack and Bable.

Notable tech I learnt: Python with a Raspberry Pi to create a voice recognition app, that toggled a relay switch. Which you could then use to create voice commands to turn on/off any house hold appliance such as your house lights.

Ogilvy is an advertising agency which specialises in delivering a brands messaging cross all the media chancels (radio, tv, billboards, print, digital). I worked on the maintenance of existing websites, blogs and the building of micro-sites. I primarily used PHP, MYSQL, WordPress, Craft CMS and JavaScript.

Notable tech used was React.js, Gulp, Node.js and WebPack for various build tasks. Git became the de facto version control tool. On the DevOps side we used Vagrant/Virtualbox/Scotchbox and Homestead boxes to get consistent development environments across our teams.

Weekday Heroes specialised in custom WordPress sites. With WordPress being the platform, lots of work was done in PHP and MYSQL to build custom data driven plugins, as well as building the front-end designs of the websites. JavaScript/jQuery libraries, were used extensively across all projects. We used SVN for version control.