Doug Banks
Freelance Board Game Developer at Self-employed
Coarsegold, California, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Banks is a seasoned software engineer turned freelance board game developer with 13 years of experience building tools, games, and consumer apps across companies like Roblox, Google, and Edmodo. He’s shipped developer-facing features for Roblox Studio (debugging tools, a native widget library, and Accurate Play Solo) and led cross-functional teams from prototype to production while mentoring engineers and designers. Comfortable across C++, Java, Swift, Python, and web stacks, Doug has a proven knack for learning new technologies on the job to deliver shipping products. He pairs a mathematically wired, puzzle-oriented mindset with a passion for playful, educational experiences—he’s taught geometry, composed songs, and even writes murder mystery plays. Now focused on publishing tabletop games, he brings a developer’s discipline to game design and a history of shipping polished, user-focused tools.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at UC BerkeleyBA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (30)
celsius10
pycharm6
breakpoints6
decoder6
azerothcore6
searching6
encoder6
sorting5
repair5
gtk5
widgets5
assembly5
vala5
linux4
x864
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
objectDisorientedProgrammer/TextChat
Oct 2015 - Mar 2025
Simple chat application.
Contributions:15 PRs, 25 pushes, 18 branches in 9 years 6 months
reactsocket-iochat-applicationjavascriptchat
objectDisorientedProgrammer/TextConverter
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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