M Weeks
Founder at Tough Love Arena
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolM. Weeks is a founder and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building web and browser-native multiplayer games and production web apps from prototype to scale. As co-creator and lead developer of Tough Love Arena, he shipped a custom Typescript/HTML5 game engine, invented a WebRTC P2P rollback netcode, and grew the game to hundreds of thousands of visits without paid acquisition. He pairs frontend fluency in React and modern UX design with backend expertise across Node, Go, PostgreSQL and serverless platforms (GCP, AWS, Firebase), and has led teams as an engineering manager at ZipRecruiter and as a mentor/instructor at multiple bootcamps. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and product/community roles, he emphasizes accessible design—making competitive fighting mechanics approachable for beginners while retaining depth for veterans. Unusual for an engineer, he also organizes live performances (founded two office barbershop quartets) and regularly speaks at fan conventions, showing a knack for community-building beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Colgate UniversityCranbrook Kingswood School
English
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Github Skills (51)
peer-connection10
peerjs10
screensharing9
price9
browser9
coingecko9
webrtc9
voice9
nodejs9
browser-game8
p2p8
react8
javascript8
peer-to-peer8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
toughlovearena/status.toughlovearena.com
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
Status page for Tough Love Arena and it's various dependencies
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
status-pagedependenciesstatusarena
mpaulweeks/how-games-work
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:80 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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