James Dessart
Software Engineer at HB Studios
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Dessart is a software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building games, tooling, and database-driven applications from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has shipped gameplay and presentation systems on major console titles (PGA TOUR 2K, WWE 2K) and built low-level networking, telemetry, and art import tooling across multiple studios. Comfortable moving between game engines, internal tools, and web/database work, he also teaches—having delivered game development courses to CS students—bringing clarity to complex technical topics. His background spans both hands-on engine-level systems and higher-level content-validation pipelines, and he has a formal grounding in computer science and adult education. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who thrives on projects that bridge creative content and reliable engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BCompSci, Computer Science, Linguistics, BCompSci, Computer Science, Linguistics at Concordia UniversityDEC, Creative Arts, DEC, Creative Arts at Dawson CollegeCertificate in Adult Education, Certificate in Adult Education at Dalhousie UniversityRVRHS
Github Skills (17)
minecraft10
energy10
forge10
fabric10
java9
simulate8
universe7
minecraft-forge6
azerothcore3
thunderbird3
silent3
replay3
modular2
nethack2
raspberry2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
skwirl42/robco-os
Dec 2018 - Jun 2022
An attempt at making a framework to simulate a RobCo terminal experience from the Fallout universe
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 3 years 6 months
terminalfalloutuniversesimulate
skwirl42/robco-processor
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
an emulated fantasy computer system inspired by the terminals found in the Fallout universe
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 1 month
universeemulatorreplay8bitterminals
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