Nick Heilmann
Senior Gameplay Engineer at Turtle Rock Studios
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Heilmann is a Senior Gameplay Engineer with nine years of industry experience and a decade-plus career building weapons, combat systems, and mission scripting for high-profile console titles. Based in Victoria, BC, he’s shipped gameplay systems at Volition, KIXEYE, Striking Distance Studios and now Turtle Rock Studios, often bridging scripting (Lua) and core gameplay code. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance player-facing polish with robust engineering, and his GitHub reflects a practical generalist who keeps most proprietary work private. A father and lifelong gamer, he brings player empathy to technical design and a track record of turning creative game ideas into reliable, shipped features.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor, Computer Science, Mathematics at Purdue UniversityWilliam Henry Harrison High School
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Github Skills (42)
vscode-extension10
vim10
vscode10
keybindings10
typescript9
uglifyjs8
visual-studio-code8
visual-studio-code-extension7
xdebug7
code-generation7
pug7
eclipse6
adobe6
cpp6
ant6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
knetworx/Machome
Oct 2016 - Feb 2021
Machome - a collection of bash, vim, and initialization scripts to simplify switching between computers
Contributions:95 commits, 111 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
bashvim
knetworx/winhome
Feb 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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