Matthew Brand
Senior Software Engineer at Second Dinner
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Brand is a senior software engineer with over 20 years in software development and 11+ years focused on games, currently contributing on the Marvel Snap team at Second Dinner. He’s led multiple game projects from prototype to release, excels at rapid iterative prototyping alongside designers, and brings a rare blend of hands-on gameplay systems work and team leadership. Matthew’s background spans educational games for children to indie titles on app stores, and his early career building bespoke business software gives him a pragmatic systems mindset. Based in Los Angeles, he’s passionate about crafting high-quality, joyful player experiences and draws fresh inspiration from favorites like Dark Souls and Hollow Knight.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Game Programming, Bachelor's degree, Game Programming at Champlain College
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
slack-bot8
backend6
feature-flags5
microservices3
saas3
devops3
ab-testing3
teammates2
continuous-delivery2
slack2
serverless2
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BrandNameSoftware/BookFinder
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Connects to the Goodreads and find your "to-read" books at the library
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
BrandNameSoftware/BikeTrainerWorkout
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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