Summary
Anton Strickland is a product-focused full-stack developer and founder with 11 years of experience building web apps, games, and developer communities. He leads Mystery Gamedev, running the world’s largest community for mystery-game fans while shipping a MERN web app with authentication and a games database. As founder of Goldbar Games he designed a cross-platform C++ engine, multiple Unity titles, and storefront integrations using Django, AWS, and Stripe, and he’s shipped to Steam and Google Play. He combines hands-on engineering across C#, C++, Python, and JavaScript with product management and remote team leadership, having led an 8-person team to complete an award-winning game in 30 days. Anton also consults, writes weekly technical articles, and has built niche tooling such as a Nostr-list MERN viewer and a Binance trading bot—demonstrating a mix of entrepreneurial grit and practical systems-building. Based in Godfrey, Illinois, he blends gamedev craft with emerging interests in Web3 and AI to turn creative ideas into shipped products.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English, Japanese, c++, c#, python, javascript, solidity