Summary
Tim Ryan is a seasoned game engineer, designer, and product leader with 9+ years of experience shaping casino, lottery, mobile and PC games. As Founder and Head of Games at Upswing Games, he leads the full-stack development of an iGaming platform, building math tools and slot and eInstant games using PixiJS, Javascript, PHP and SQL. He has a proven track record of scaling teams and tightening development processes at Everi, AGS, Scientific Games, Bravery Gaming and other studios, introducing roadmaps, code reviews, test plans, CI/CD practices, and outsourcing pipelines. His hands-on work spans Unreal and Unity prototyping, licensing and integration with back-end systems (Photon, Docker, Node, AWS, Redis, MySQL), and patent-pending skill mechanics. Based in Columbus, Georgia, Tim blends entrepreneurial drive with deep technical depth to translate ambitious game concepts into production-ready, revenue-focused experiences.
9 years of coding experience