Brendan Rafeld
Game Designer at Schell Games
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Rafeld is a game designer and engineer with eight years of experience shipping narrative-driven and mechanically rich titles across PC, console, and mobile, including Monster Train, Death’s Door, and Inkbound. He blends design, writing, and lead engineering roles—often wearing multiple hats as designer, lead writer, and technical lead on the same project—which lets him drive both creative vision and implementation. His background at Amazon Music and early engineering internships gives him strong systems and tooling instincts that improve development pipelines and cross-team collaboration. Based in Pittsburgh, he has delivered client work for major partners like Microsoft and Oculus, and is comfortable moving between prototyping, live product engineering, and narrative design. An uncommon strength is his track record of translating story goals into shipped code, making him effective at shipping cohesive player experiences end-to-end.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English
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Github Skills (22)
log4j6
unity3d5
firebase-analytics4
firebase4
firebase-cloud-messaging3
firebase-authentication2
firebase-storage2
firebase-remote-config1
spinner1
programming-language1
scripting1
jupyter1
mathematica1
firebase-db1
compiler1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
shinyshoe/monster-train-mods
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 8 pushes in 1 month
shinyshoe/YarnSpinner
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 20 days
gamegamesyarngamedevc-library
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