Liam Harwood
Lead Technical Narrative Designer
North Attleborough, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLiam Harwood is a seasoned software engineer and game developer with 11 years of experience who blends backend engineering rigor with narrative-driven game design. As founder and lead developer of indie studio King Brick Games, he shipped Obscurant on Steam and itch.io, while progressing at Ghost Story Games from Narrative Scripter to Lead Technical Narrative Designer. He previously spent several years at HubSpot as a senior engineer and contributed meaningful fixes and features to the popular Jinjava Java template engine, demonstrating strengths in backend systems and tooling. Based in North Attleborough, MA, he excels at translating creative storytelling requirements into robust technical implementations and shipping polished products end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Marist University
English, French
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
javas10
template-engine10
java10
date-format9
strings9
text-manipulation9
date-formatting9
git6
capistrano6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/jinjava
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Jinja template engine for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Liam contributed to the Jinjava template engine by implementing new features and fixing bugs. Their work included adding warnings for unclosed comments and resolving relative paths in the include, import, and extend tags. They also updated the truncatehtml filter to use kwargs and added a new filter and function for converting strings to dates, which required changes to the codebase and supporting tests.
template-enginetemplatejinjajinja-templatejava
liamrharwood/Capping2017
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:145 commits in 3 months
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