Sam Kalish
Technical Lead at High Voltage Games
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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SeniorSam Kalish is a technical lead and entrepreneur who combines deep hands-on software engineering (Lua, Node.js, Rust) with marketing leadership and startup execution. He founded SimpleAdmin, a Roblox administration suite that generated 60,000+ sales and saw broad adoption, and launched SimpleAnticheat to protect hundreds of games and detect thousands of players monthly. In recent roles at Gamefam and High Voltage Games, he has led cross-platform game development, built large-scale frameworks from scratch, and steered partnerships with Disney, Mattel, and other major brands while delivering analytics-driven roadmaps. His GitHub contributions include backend work on the Roblox server administration system Epix-Incorporated/Adonis, with a focus on security hardening and anti-cheat improvements. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he has driven projects that have attracted billions of visits across Roblox titles, blending technical depth with strategic business impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
lua10
roblox10
admin10
server-side9
debug8
debugging8
code-optimization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Epix-Incorporated/Adonis
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Roblox Server Administration System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Adonis Roblox server administration system. Their contributions include bug fixes related to misleading game ban hints and potential memory leaks within the Insert function. They also implemented security enhancements to the anti-cheat system, including bypass detection and recursive checks within the CoreGui. Furthermore, the user refactored parts of the flynoclip functionality.
robloxsystem-administrationadminadministrationadonis-loader
crywink/SimpleAdmin
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
SimpleAdmin is a game-management suite designed to act as a total solution to controlling your game.
Contributions:106 commits, 34 PRs, 84 pushes in 9 months
acttotalgamemanagement-gamecontrolling
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