Jake Card
Lead Programmer at Mega Crit
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJake Card is a lead programmer and senior software engineer with 17 years of experience, notable for being an early engineer at GitHub where he spent seven years shaping Rails and iPhone work. He’s comfortable across startups and large companies, having moved from SCVNGR and Cisco to independent contracting before pivoting into game development. Over the last few years he co-founded Bee’s Knees Games with his wife, shipping three small games and currently building his first full-length title while leading game programming at Mega Crit. Based in New York, he blends backend and mobile expertise with practical game engineering, making him equally at home designing user-facing features or optimizing game systems. An engineer who transitions between product domains, he brings a rare combination of large-scale platform experience and hands-on indie game craftsmanship.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stackoverflow
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30answers
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Github Skills (55)
realtime9
elixir9
api-server9
sdk9
github-api9
etsy8
api8
etsy-api8
phoenix-framework8
autohotkey8
pathofexile7
twitter7
hotkeys7
refresh7
poe7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
beeskneesgames/BobaSimulator2020
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
The machines at the shop have a mind of their own. Can you make a good drink anyways?
Contributions:421 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 months
drinkshopmindmachines
jakeboxer/jessicaplusjake
Jun 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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