James Heslin
Senior Game Server Engineer at DIGIT, a Scopely Studio
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolJames Heslin is a Senior Game Server Engineer based in Dublin with 13 years' experience building and maintaining backend systems for games and web applications. Currently at DIGIT/Scopely, he focuses on robust game server infrastructure while bringing a history of full-stack work—from React frontends and Python APIs to build/test automation and lightweight ops at Demonware. His earlier roles show hands-on systems engineering using Django, AWS, Memcached and C for embedded metering daemons, reflecting comfort across cloud, backend services and low-level code. A First Class Honours graduate in Multimedia and Computer Games Development, he pairs solid academic foundations with practical experience shipping production systems and troubleshooting complex deployments. Notably, he blends developer and ops responsibilities, making him effective at smoothing the handoff between engineering, deployment pipelines and live service reliability.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kilmihil Community CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Multimedia and Computer Games Development, First Class Honours (3.69/4) - conferral August '13, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Multimedia and Computer Games Development, First Class Honours (3.69/4) - conferral August '13 at University of Limerick
English, Irish, French
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Github Skills (22)
game-engine7
game-development7
documentation7
awesomewm6
socket6
hyperlink6
vim6
php6
android6
http6
open-source6
linux6
sms6
godot6
editor6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MaximusV/pyturn-battle
Nov 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:54 commits in 5 months
PROGRAM-IX/cheeky
Apr 2016 - Jul 2023
A cheeky window switcher for Awesome WM
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 3 months
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