skwirl42
Summary
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SeniorJames 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
Github Skills (18)
minecraft10
forge10
fabric10
java9
simulate7
universe6
minecraft-forge4
thunderbird4
azerothcore4
replay3
cmake2
modular2
nethack2
cpp2
dotnet1
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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