Ben Schmidt
Head Of Technology at Noodlecake Studios
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Schmidt is Head of Technology at Noodlecake Studios with a decade of experience leading mobile game technology, publishing pipelines, and internal tools from Saskatoon, Canada. He guides cross-functional teams and external partners through complex ports, networking systems, analytics deep-dives, and feature planning while still rolling up his sleeves as a developer. His background spans embedded C systems at Vecima and enterprise Java at IBM, giving him a practical, systems-oriented approach to solving game-development challenges. Ben’s blend of computer science rigor and a studio art minor informs both technical architecture and game-facing design decisions. He’s known for bridging product, marketing, and engineering needs—often switching day-to-day between hands-on coding, technical consulting, and player-facing community work. Outside typical leadership duties he actively scouts new tech for first- and third-party titles, accelerating the studio’s expansion into PC and console.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc. Honours Degree, Computer Science, B. Sc. Honours Degree, Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
English, French
Github Skills (10)
android7
ruby7
ios7
android-apps6
unity3d6
testing5
react-native5
automation5
mobile4
fastlane3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
noodlecake/noodleadstest
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Unity project which is just for testing ad networks and mediation - no game included
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
testingunity-projectmediationunityunity3d
noodlecake/NCGameControllerUnity
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 28 commits, 24 pushes in 1 day
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