William Lam
Technical Game Designer at Kongor Studios
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolWilliam Lam is a versatile technical game designer and software engineer with 8 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning game development, QA, project management, and full-stack web development. He currently serves as Technical Game Designer at Kongor Studios, where he implements QoL features, UI-level scripting in Lua, and maintains C++ sources, while also authoring thorough documentation. Previously at Frostburn Studios, he led operations and QA for Heroes of Newerth, boosted content throughput by 5x, managed a team of volunteers, and saved the studio over $100k by preventing costly hotfixes, underscoring his knack for preventive quality and stakeholder communication. His background includes full-stack work for the Public Service Commission of Canada, migrating services to Azure, and designing scalable Django/React solutions, reflecting strong systems-thinking and a bias for robust architectures. An active GitHub presence as a game and software developer, he has a track record of bug hunting (1,000+ fixes) and community-facing contributions, and holds an Honours BSc in Biochemistry with a BASc in Chemical Engineering from Ottawa, plus an advanced diploma in computer engineering technology from Algonquin College. Based in the Greater Ottawa area, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic project leadership and is seeking opportunities to blend engineering, simulation, and biotech-driven initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeHigh School Diploma, 87% GPA, High School Diploma, 87% GPA at St. Joseph Catholic High SchoolHonours BSc with Specialization in Biochemistry and BASc in Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, 8.1 GPA (out of 10), Honours BSc with Specialization in Biochemistry and BASc in Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, 8.1 GPA (out of 10) at University of Ottawa
English, French, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (77)
tournament10
remix10
sqlite310
css10
kysely10
react10
nextjs9
in-game9
typescript9
aurora8
creator8
integrate8
database-management7
candidate7
database-migrations7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ElementUser/HoN-Patch-Notes-Game-Bot
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021
Reddit bot for the HoN Patch Notes Guessing Game in /r/heroesofnewerth
Contributions:16 releases, 192 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 3 months
honguessing-gamenotespatchin-game
ElementUser/Heroes-of-Newerth
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
Scripts that I've made and used for the Heroes of Newerth project.
Contributions:74 commits, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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