Gordon Tisher
Senior Software Developer at Social Nature
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGordon Tisher is a senior software developer with 17+ years of broad full‑stack and systems experience, currently focused on delivering robust solutions at Social Nature from his base in Kamloops, BC. He blends deep expertise in .NET, SQL Server, Oracle and NoSQL with low‑level systems work in C/C++ and compiler technology — notably as a contributor to the core Pony programming language. His background spans NLP, machine learning, 3D graphics, game AI and metaverse scripting, enabling him to bridge research concepts and production systems. Past roles include building matchmaking/relay servers for games, designing CI/CD and backend platforms, and architecting asynchronous dataflow languages that compile to .NET. Gordon is adept at surfacing and proving technical approaches to hard problems, often moving from industry best practices into novel, practical implementations.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Linguistics, Master's Linguistics at Trinity Western University
English, French, Esperanto, Greek
Stackoverflow
211reputation
4kreached
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Github Skills (16)
compiler-development10
build-automation9
llvm9
test-automation9
cli7
command-line7
command-line-interface7
json6
lambda6
asp-net6
restsharp6
sql6
visual-studio6
angular6
asmx6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ponylang/ponyc
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:96 reviews, 158 commits, 168 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gordon primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Pony language, focusing on renaming and refactoring code related to the `MaybePointer` type. They made changes across several files including the compiler, test files, and code generation tools. They also added a command-line argument for verbosity level.
securehorseponyponycpony-source
chalcolith/kiuatan
Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
A parser library for Pony.
Contributions:156 commits, 20 PRs, 168 pushes in 6 years 4 months
ponyponylangparser-libraryparsing-expression-grammarparser-generator
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