Mike Kasprzak
Company Owner at Ludum Dare
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMike Kasprzak is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur with over two decades of hands-on experience shipping games and distributed systems across consoles, mobile, embedded devices, and server clusters. As co-founder and long-time caretaker of Ludum Dare, he built and scaled a custom social platform that supports thousands of concurrent users on low-cost VPS infrastructure while running the world’s largest online game jam. He’s led teams and small studios, acted as technical director, and repeatedly architected toolchains and deployment processes that make software portable and reliable across wildly different environments. Comfortable from low-level C++ netcode and embedded systems to PHP/MariaDB backends and modern ES6 frontends, he’s equally at home designing compilers and operator-friendly release systems. A published author and multimedia tinkerer who once won a car with a game, he playfully calls himself an “Engineer of Distractions” who builds things that entertain, educate, and bring communities together. Based in Ontario, Canada, he combines deep technical breadth with decades of product and event stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (184)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mikekasprzak/JamBrain
Nov 2017 - May 2021
My working version of the Ludum Dare event website
Contributions:21 commits, 2636 pushes, 120 branches in 3 years 6 months
ludum-dare
JamBrain/DairyBox
Apr 2015 - Jan 2022
Custom Scotch/Box (LAMP) for Ludum Dare
Contributions:325 commits, 92 PRs, 213 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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