Andy Gainey
Game Designer, Entrepreneur at Self-employed
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolAndy Gainey is a multidisciplinary software architect and game designer with a decade of experience building engine-level systems, gameplay prototypes, and procedural tooling across C++, C#, LuaJIT, and OpenGL. He has led technical teams at Paradox Development Studio and founded Experilous, where he shipped math-intensive libraries for Unity and a procedural planet generator, blending deep algorithmic knowledge with pragmatic engineering. Based in Stockholm, he combines low-level performance care with high-level product design, emphasizing how components and people interact during development. A philosopher by training, Andy brings a rare habit of reframing problems and communicating complex trade-offs, which fuels inventive gameplay mechanics and robust architectures. Notably, his Ludum Dare entries earned top rankings for innovation, reflecting a sustained practice of rapid prototyping and creative risk-taking.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Olivet Nazarene UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Github Skills (18)
game-engine9
3d9
latex9
game-development9
profiler8
vue8
linux8
open-source8
godot8
markdown8
windows7
macos7
electron6
cpp5
editor5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
againey/MakeIt.Wrap
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:145 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
againey/MakeIt.Core
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:133 commits, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 5 months
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