Summary
Erik Gassler is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building games, development tools, and cloud-native applications, currently leading Wyrdloom Studios to create 3D world-building and game systems in Rust. He runs Stoic Dreams, where he authors and evangelizes Continuous Agile Software Engineering (CASE) practices and open-source developer tooling to improve delivery workflows. Erik has substantial Azure and full‑stack experience from multiple roles at Microsoft, plus hands-on work building UIs and PaaS features for healthcare and e-commerce products. He blends low-level systems work in Rust with high-level platform and CI/CD expertise, routinely improving performance and developer productivity. Notably, he’s an author and educator who has prototyped large-scale rearchitectures to cut multi-minute reporting times down to seconds. Based in Tennessee, he brings an entrepreneurial edge and a proven track record of shipping pragmatic, performance-focused software.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer