Erik Onarheim
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Onarheim is a seasoned software and cloud engineer based in Minneapolis with 15 years building scalable .NET and JavaScript systems and designing large-scale cloud infrastructure. Currently a Staff Software Engineer at Renaissance Learning and founder of Caliburn Games, he blends production-grade web and cloud engineering with a passion for game development—authoring the open-source TypeScript game engine Excalibur.js. He has a track record leading DevOps-forward hosting teams at General Mills and mentoring the local game-dev community through IGDA Twin Cities and TypeScript.fm. Known for refactoring for performance and modern graphics pipelines, he also speaks regularly at conferences and contributes to open source. Off-hours he explores compilers, emulators, vintage hardware and recreational mathematics, which often surfaces as unconventional solutions to engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
English
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
graphics-engine10
canvas2d10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
canvasjs10
drawing10
animation10
typescript-types10
canvas10
webgl7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
excaliburjs/Excalibur
Jan 2013 - Sep 2022
🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 158 reviews, 1076 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily worked on refactoring the codebase, especially focusing on the drawing pipeline. They added support for the new graphics system including new types of graphics like text, circles, and rectangles. They improved drawing performance. They modified the animation system.
html5-gamegamegamesgamedevjavascript
eonarheim/banditogame
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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