Daniel Locke
Founder & Lead Engineer at Spider Punch Games
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Locke is a founder and lead engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building games, real-time systems, and tooling, specializing in Unreal Engine 4 C++ development. He has led engineering efforts across studios and startups—from Telltale and Genpop to his current indie studio Spider Punch Games—while also shipping DevOps and CI/CD infrastructure at scale. His background spans low-level systems like a custom DirectX renderer and Arduino machine controllers to machine vision integrations using Intel RealSense and OpenCV. Comfortable across languages and pipelines, he pairs pragmatic engineering with team leadership and a knack for networking and tooling for multiplayer workflows. An advocate for free software and an avid poker player, he brings a methodical, risk-aware approach to problem solving and product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (137)
cordova-plugin10
javascript10
node-serialport10
hardware10
robot10
bluetooth-low-energy10
apache-cordova9
deno9
robotics9
linux9
gdb9
ecmascript9
rust9
smsretrieverapi9
nucleo9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lcrocker/ojcardlib
May 2013 - Mar 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 4 years 11 months
gamegamedevgame-librarygame-developmentcard-game
lcrocker/onejoker
Mar 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:150 commits, 10 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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