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 (60)
ninja10
crossword10
multiplayer10
world-of-warcraft10
dll10
mach-o10
kiwi10
dotnet10
browser10
source-port10
plugin10
monkey10
backport10
productivity-tools10
mono10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
doombubbles/CardMonkey
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
A BTD6 Mod that adds a new tower: The Card Monkey,
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 6 months
btd6-modbrowsermodmonkeybtd6
doombubbles/btd6-template-mod
Jul 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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