Neil Moon
Founding Engineer at Dokai
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Moon is a founding engineer and full-stack software developer with nine years of experience building production systems across startups and major tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has held founding roles at Dokai and ParentHero and previously shipped services at Google after progressing through an engineering residency, bringing both early-stage product instincts and large-scale engineering discipline. Neil contributes to open-source game infrastructure—improving Terasology’s server, networking and persistence layers—demonstrating a knack for backend reliability and careful refactors that surface clearer error messaging. Comfortable across frontend and backend domains, he pairs hands-on coding with systems thinking to turn ambiguous problems into maintainable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at California State University - East BayAssociate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Ohlone College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
javas10
game-engine10
java10
network-programming9
game-dev9
protobuf9
protobuffer9
server-side9
server9
game-development9
voxel8
3d-engine8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MovingBlocks/Terasology
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Terasology - open source voxel world
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 22 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Neil's contributions primarily focused on back-end development within the Terasology voxel world game. They addressed a stack overflow error in the rendering engine, implemented server blacklist and whitelist functionality, and refactored the ServerInfoMessage to provide more descriptive error messaging. The user also made a temporary change to make tests work. The work involved modifications to network and persistence code.
terasologyvoxeljavagamesandbox
Inei1/AutomaticBrowserLogin
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 95 commits, 82 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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