Jake Cataford
Independent Game Developer at Svblm interactions
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Cataford is an independent game developer and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building games and backend systems from Montreal. Formerly a Staff Developer at Shopify, he brings deep Ruby and systems design expertise—evidenced by meaningful contributions to the deployment-focused Shipit Engine where he improved CI-bypass workflows, tests, and UI feedback. At Svblm interactions he ships entire games end-to-end, balancing design, code, and ops while often working intense, marathon development sprints. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps chops with creative game-making instincts, making him comfortable moving between architecture-level decisions and late-night bug hunts. Unconventional and focused, he blends a musician’s sense of timing (per his playful GitHub persona) with pragmatic engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Multimedia and Design, Interactive Multimedia and Design, Interactive Multimedia and Design, Interactive Multimedia and Design at Carleton University
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
rails10
cicd10
ruby10
deployment-automation10
testing9
activerecord9
git7
plist6
flash6
php6
actionscript6
jquery6
append6
json6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shipit-engine
May 2015 - May 2015
Deployment coordination
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Jake focused on enhancing the deployment workflow of the `shipit-engine` repository. Their work included adding functionality to bypass CI checks, refactoring code, and implementing tests related to deployment conditions. The user also introduced UI feedback mechanisms for deployments that bypass CI and made several changes to the stack configuration and controller to manage this new deployment logic.
continuous-deploymentdeploymentcoordinationdockercontinuous-delivery
JakeCataford/unity-tinkerbox
Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:12 commits, 1 issue in 16 days
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