Dustin Hendrickson
VP Of Engineering at Skillionaire Games by skillsgapp
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Hendrickson is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building scalable games and backend systems, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Skillionaire Games in Los Angeles. He combines hands-on Unity game development and platform modernization with cloud-native backend expertise (AWS/Azure), having led cost optimization, security improvements, and consolidated server architectures. Dustin has a track record of leading and mentoring distributed teams, delivering analytics, authentication, and parental-consent flows for consumer-facing products. As founder and lead designer of Thunk Board Games, he has shipped 7+ published titles and run multiple successful crowdfunding campaigns, showing product-minded leadership beyond code. His career spans edtech, cognitive AI, and high-throughput API platforms, reflecting a rare blend of game design, systems engineering, and operational rigor. He’s equally comfortable sketching platform flowcharts as he is tuning Kubernetes and AWS costs—a pragmatic leader who ships playable experiences and efficient infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming Graphic Design, Computer Programming Graphic Design at Hutchinson Community College
Github Skills (34)
modular10
world-of-warcraft10
trinitycore10
azerothcore10
server10
multiplayer9
mmo9
management9
mangos8
addon6
api5
nodejs4
development-tools4
backport4
lua4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DustinHendrickson/dustinhendrickson
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:134 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 2 years 6 months
DustinHendrickson/mod-player-bot-level-brackets
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
The Bot Level Brackets module for AzerothCore ensures an even spread of player bots across configurable level ranges (brackets). It periodically monitors bot levels and automatically adjusts them by transferring bots from overpopulated brackets to those with a deficit.
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 46 PRs in 1 month
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