Nicholas Feinberg
Software Engineer at PleasingFungus Games
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Feinberg is a multidisciplinary software engineer with 13 years of experience combining backend systems, frontend interfaces, and product leadership from Mountain View, CA. He founded and led PleasingFungus Games, hiring and managing a small team to ship a well-received puzzle game and other interactive projects, bringing entrepreneurial product sense to engineering work. At Liftoff Mobile he continues to build production software, following earlier roles developing DDOS detection/prevention systems at Google and automation pipelines at Quixey. Nicholas is also an active open-source contributor to the classic Crawl/Crawl repository, improving UI and item-description usability for a long-standing roguelike community. Comfortable across the stack, he blends systems-level rigor with a designer’s attention to player and user experience.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
develop9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
cpp-library6
c-libraries6
standard-library6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
crawl/crawl
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 124 reviews, 5659 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Nicholas contributed to the official repository of the Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup game, primarily focusing on improvements to the user interface, particularly the item descriptions, along with enhancing the usability of the game. Their work involved modifying the code to reflect the changes, and some of these were to enhance the user interface. The user's efforts improved aspects of the game through modifications to the code.
dungeonstonerpgroguelikedungeon-crawl-stone-soup
PleasingFungus/mde2
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:862 commits in 9 months
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