Bowser Hickenbottom
Volunteer at Protosprite
Carnation, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBowser Hickenbottom is a seasoned software engineer and founder with two decades of experience building systems for Microsoft, Unity, Amazon, and his indie studio Protosprite. He blends deep hands-on expertise in C# and Python with production experience in C++, C, and Go, having architected cross-platform game engines, telemetry platforms, and large-scale data pipelines. At Unity he single-handedly designed a live telemetry aggregation platform used for crash reporting and ML-driven insights, and at Amazon he focused on scaling Ads data pipelines and ML experimentation. As founder of Protosprite he built a custom C# engine and shipped Cartridge the Tiger on Steam, proving he can take complex engine work from prototype to commercial release. He also experiments with training AI models and reimplementing research papers in his spare time, bridging cutting-edge ML with practical engineering. Based in Carnation, WA, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade systems thinking and a knack for building almost everything from scratch.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Self Starter
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Github Skills (43)
monogame8
playing8
xna8
csharp8
3d7
dotnet7
azure6
game-development6
cli6
linux6
stable6
command-line-interface6
cross-platform6
game-engine6
generative-art5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bhickenbottom/3DPrinting
Dec 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
bhickenbottom/NanoTwitchBot
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 12 commits, 10 pushes in 26 days
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