Eric Mcvicker
Software Architect Consultant at Self-employed
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Mcvicker is a software architect and consultant based in Austin with over 20 years of hands-on experience delivering full-stack solutions across web front ends, backend APIs, and big data systems. He blends craftsmanship and leadership—mentoring teams, directing architecture, and executing development, DevOps, and project management across projects large and small. His background spans legacy Win32 clients to modern Angular (1.x–6.x) front ends, ASP.NET and Node backends, and data pipelines using Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and GridGain/Ignite. As a contributor to the XMage project he has focused on backend refactoring and improving code reuse and maintainability, showing a pragmatic eye for reducing duplication in complex codebases. Clients rely on him to translate complex requirements into resilient, maintainable systems while elevating team capabilities through practical mentorship. He brings a rare combination of deep technical breadth and a craftsman’s attention to code quality.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
javas10
mechanics10
refactoring10
game-development10
java10
card10
refactor10
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
magefree/mage
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
XMage - Magic Another Game Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 12 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on refactoring the code base by moving token classes and dynamic value calculations to shared areas, reducing code duplication and improving maintainability. They fixed naming issues and corrected the implementation of dynamic values related to card game mechanics. Additionally, the user refactored code by moving classes to a shared area, demonstrating a focus on code organization and reusability within the project.
gamedeckwindowsgamedevmagic
JOAC69/mage
Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:119 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
gamedevmagicgame-developmentopenglengine
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