James Gale
Chief Technology Officer at Hidden Switch
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Gale is a pragmatic technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of AppMana with nine years of software experience and ongoing engineering work at Hidden Switch. He blends startup-level product delivery with hands-on engineering, leading architecture and platform decisions while still shipping code. A University of Washington computer science graduate, James brings practical experience across game-adjacent systems and consumer apps. Outside work he builds mods and modding frameworks for games like BTD6, Terraria, and Baldur's Gate 3, reflecting deep systems-level creativity and a passion for extendable tooling. This combination of entrepreneurial drive, production engineering, and hobbyist open-source craftsmanship informs his approach to building durable, extensible products.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Compter Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Compter Science at University of WashingtonRoosevelt High School
Github Skills (74)
il2cpp10
combinations10
ninja10
dotnet10
browser10
source-port10
productivity-tools10
api10
steam10
unity3d10
crossword10
dll10
mach-o10
java10
backport10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
doombubbles/faster-forward
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
A BTD6 Mod Helper mod. Allows you to increase the Fast Forward speed using the FN keys.
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
btd6-modutility
doombubbles/insta-monkey-rework
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 13 pushes in 8 months
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