Jamie Stormbreaker is a founder and COO with 15 years building distributed systems and multiplayer online games, currently leading One More Game from Seattle. He combines game direction and operational leadership with deep hands-on systems engineering across Rust, C/C++, C#, Erlang/Elixir and Linux-based CI/CD. Previously he co-authored Habitat at Chef and architected online game backends at Undead Labs, bringing production-grade automation and package/build expertise to game services. An active open-source contributor, his work spans tooling and DevOps—improving Habitat plans, Chef cookbooks, and Rust bindings for ZeroMQ—demonstrating a rare intersection of game design and infra craftsmanship. Colleagues describe him as a language-polyglot pragmatist who turns complex distributed problems into resilient, deployable systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Associates at New England Institute of Technology
Contributions:1679 commits, 27 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jamie contributed to the development and maintenance of the Berkshelf, a Chef Cookbook manager. Their commits focused on tasks related to dependency management and cookbook management, adding features related to testing, such as adding guard-cucumber to the project and fixing require issues related to proper pathing. They also updated the tool to use a new version of the Ridley gem and made several code refactors and performance improvements.
Contributions:345 commits, 329 PRs, 310 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily focused on maintaining and improving the core Habitat plan definitions within the repository. They implemented significant changes, including renaming files, refactoring modules, and enhancing the build system to include automatic updates and restarts for running packages, specifically concerning the use of remote repositories. The user also demonstrated a proficiency in package management and build process automation, as seen in adapting and creating various plans for different software packages and libraries. These changes were applied across a wide range of software packages including core dependencies.
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