Harvey Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Jetpack Interactive
Scotland, Canada
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Top SchoolHarvey Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building games, programming language tooling, and Unix-centric developer workflows. Based in Scotland (originally from Canada), he has cycled between senior roles at Jetpack Interactive and freelance consultancy, bringing both studio-scale leadership and hands-on implementation to long-lived projects. His background includes technical lead experience at EA and deep systems knowledge from early work at SCO and MathEngine, giving him a rare blend of game-dev, low-level Unix, and language design expertise. An avid Emacs and Linux/Unix user, he combines practical tooling fluency with R&D curiosity—currently focused on new techniques and prototypes at Jetpack Interactive. Colleagues describe him as an "old dog who loves to learn new tricks," signaling steady reliability paired with continuous learning. His Oxford MSc and history of recurring engagements with the same studio underscore a reputation for trusted delivery and sustained technical impact.
15 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Yarm Grammar School for BoysWatford Grammar School For BoysWhitby Comprehension SchoolMSc, MSc at University of OxfordBSc, BSc at University of Warwick
Github Skills (18)
metadata10
ckan10
indexer9
kerbal-space6
minecraft5
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qualcomm3
perf2
distributions1
ruby1
composition1
macos1
cpp1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
harveyt/harveyt.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:88 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
harveyt/dep
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:68 pushes, 53 tags in 2 years 10 months
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