Caolan Mckendry
GameDev Consultant at ShipShape!
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCaolan Mckendry is a GameDev consultant and experienced operations leader with a decade in the games and digital marketing space, currently helping studios scale through roles spanning production, business development, and data-driven sales support. As former Operations Director and COO at Ambertail Games he steered the team and hiring for the studio’s debut title Amber Isle while transitioning from community-building into production leadership. He combines empathetic community strategy with analytics to grow healthier player communities and long-tail revenue, now advising and supporting successful indie titles via boutique consultancies and publisher scouting. Caolan also runs the NI Game Dev Network, producing large meetups, jams and the NI Game Awards, and has delivered over 200 hours of STEM workshops to more than 2,100 young people. Equally comfortable in event logistics, studio ops and commercial strategy, he’s built a niche helping hype-stage teams convert attention into sustainable business systems. Based in Belfast, he brings hands-on indie experience plus regional ecosystem leadership that often uncovers under-the-radar talent and opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, A Level at Dalriada School
Github Skills (68)
tailwindcss10
voice-control10
jam9
postgresql9
turborepo9
home-assistant9
zod9
nextjs9
jekyll9
prisma9
typescript9
controlled9
next-auth8
neat8
infrastructure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
caolanxyz/caolanxyz.github.io
May 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
CaolanMcKendry/computer-science
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
A-Level Computer Science Projects
Contributions:15 PRs, 113 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
computer-sciencea-levelscience
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