Derek Detweiler
Lead Creative Engineer
Hickory, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Detweiler is a Lead Creative Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and building games, responsive web experiences, and interactive educational products. As co-founder of Gopherwood Studios he shipped award-winning PBS Kids projects and commercial games used by Google, Mozilla, DeNA, and SPIL, and helped publish an open-source HTML5 platformer engine, Platypus. He blends hands-on engineering with product-focused design, delivering cross-platform playables and responsive sites that perform on both mobile and desktop. At Makefully he leads creative engineering efforts, bringing entrepreneurial drive and studio-scale craftsmanship to client and internal projects. His background in mathematics and computer science underpins a pragmatic approach to problem solving and systems design. Based in Hickory, NC, he pairs decades of technical support and ops experience with a flair for playful, educational user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor's, Mathematics, Computer Science at Berry College
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Github Skills (144)
threejs10
canvas2d10
rendering-engine10
game-development10
js-plugin10
javascript10
rendering10
glsl10
api10
data-visualization10
webgl10
fastest10
physics-engine10
scene-graph10
canvas10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gopherwood/SpringRollContainer
Jun 2016 - Sep 2020
The iframe controller for interacting with SpringRoll applications
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
spring-bootcontrolleriframe
gopherwood/SpringRoll
Sep 2017 - Jan 2025
Ecosystem for building educational, accessible HTML5 games
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 5 months
gamegamesaccessiblejavascriptecosystem
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