Michael Katic
Owner at Taphaus Games
Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Katic is an owner and seasoned software engineer with 10+ years of experience building full-stack, web, and AI-driven products across gaming, aerial imagery, payments, and research sectors. He combines hands-on engineering—ranging from Unity3D procedural systems and VR to Node.js/React backends—with leadership in product, QA automation, and hiring to scale teams and stabilize platforms. At Design Works Gaming he drove a tenfold client growth and cut production downtime by ~90% through process, architecture refactors, and automated testing. Michael’s background in computer graphics and LiDAR/photogrammetry informs his creative approach to procedural generation, computer vision, and game design, while his iGaming work focuses on architecture, automation, and go‑live reliability. Comfortable translating leadership goals into Jira-driven delivery, he also vets technical talent via automated coding assessments and has hands-on experience recovering from malware incidents. Based in Arizona, he balances deep technical craft with people-first team building—and rides a skateboard in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (11)
gameobject10
filesystem9
serializable5
callback3
unity3d2
unity2d2
rollback2
unity-editor2
ui-toolkit1
csharp-code1
func1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SpriteCity/SpriteCity-Unity3D
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
TinyPHX/Greenfab
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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