Aidan O'flannagain
Senior Game Developer at Sago Mini
Dublin, Dublin 1, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan O'flannagain is a Senior Game Developer with a decade of experience building game clients and scalable server systems, currently at Sago Mini in Toronto. He transitioned from academic solar astrophysics to game development, bringing rigorous research discipline to designing robust multiplayer backends and Unity-based experiences. His career progressed through server-engineering roles at DIGIT Game Studios where he moved from junior developer to senior server engineer, shaping live game infrastructure for diverse titles. Comfortable across backend systems and Unity front-ends, he focuses on reliability, performance, and player-centric design. Based in Dublin (with Canadian ties), he maintains a public portfolio at aidanof.com that showcases both technical depth and creative work. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who applies scientific thinking to practical game problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Mod.) Physics and Astrophysics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Mod.) Physics and Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin
English, Japanese, French, Irish
Github Skills (13)
game-development8
game-engine7
open-source6
godot6
bsdiff6
plugin6
gdextension4
gdnative4
rsync4
gdscript3
command-line2
cli2
git2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aidanoflann/sink_unity
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:78 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 4 months
steebi/BarJam
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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