Kyle Banks
Game Director at Blank Keys
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKyle Banks is a multidisciplinary software leader and Game Director with 13 years of experience building backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and consumer-facing web and mobile apps. Based in Edinburgh, he blends hands-on engineering—especially in Go, Python, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes—and data science with product-led team leadership, having led squads through architecture, CI/CD, and quality improvements. He directed and released the award-winning narrative game Farewell North (2024) and is shipping a follow-up title slated for 2026, demonstrating an unusual crossover of games and scalable cloud-first engineering. Previous roles include architecting event-driven, large-scale integrations and payments platforms, and building energy-optimisation and utility data pipelines for ecobee. Kyle’s strengths lie in turning complex distributed systems and ML models into reliable products while instilling a product mindset in engineering teams. He pairs technical depth with creative storytelling sensibilities, making him equally at home solving backend throughput problems or guiding game narrative design.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Programming, Diploma Computer Programming at Sheridan College
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Github Skills (103)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KyleBanks/go-kit
May 2016 - Aug 2019
A collection of Go utility packages intended to be independent and reusable.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 54 pushes in 3 years 2 months
golangindependentreusable
KyleBanks/lambda-uploader
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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