Joshua Skelton
Senior Technical Artist at Nightdive Studios
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Skelton is a Senior Technical Artist with 15+ years building tooling and production pipelines for video games and enterprise software. He specializes in digital asset creation tooling that empowers artists to work faster and with greater confidence, balancing technical depth with an artist-first mindset. Joshua has led technical art efforts at Rec Room and now Nightdive Studios, and co-founded Priority Interrupt to bring practical tooling solutions to production teams. His background spans software engineering roles at Microsoft and Perceptive Software, giving him strong systems and automation chops alongside art production experience. Based in Snoqualmie, WA, he combines studio-scale pipeline design with hands-on scripting and tool development, often favoring workflows that let artists stay in their preferred applications. A former Army National Guard IT specialist, he brings discipline and operational focus to complex cross-discipline projects.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (58)
twitch10
filesystem10
ios10
game-engine10
libgdx10
windows10
linux10
filesystem-events10
cross-platform10
java10
desktop10
pypy10
android10
3d10
external10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joshuaskelly/tmx2map
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 releases, 41 commits, 34 pushes in 10 months
pythontiledconvertingtilemapsquake
joshuaskelly/twitch-observer
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Turn Twitch chatter into Python events
Contributions:82 commits, 22 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 1 month
twitch-apieventspythontwitchchatter
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