Phil Harvey
Head Of Engineering, R&D at Manapoint LLC
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorPhil Harvey is a seasoned engineering leader with over three decades of hands-on game and systems development experience and 14 years in senior roles, currently leading R&D and engineering at a crypto-game studio in St. Petersburg, FL. He blends deep console and PC background from the 90s with modern mobile, social, and blockchain game stacks—shipping Unity clients, scalable Node.js backends, and Rust-based Internet Computer integrations. Known for rapid prototyping and pragmatic optimizations, he built a voxel map editor, AI pathing, and wallet-browser integration that was open-sourced for wider reuse. As VP/Director/CTO across multiple studios he created game engines, render pipelines, and production tooling that supported high-DAU titles and consistent asset quality. Phil’s contributions to community projects like a Pokemon GO Node API show ongoing backend craftsmanship beyond his primary roles.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
protocol-buffers10
api10
actionscript9
jpeg9
png9
nodejs9
cross-compiling6
dublin-core6
exiftool6
xmp6
video-processing6
filename6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Armax/Pokemon-GO-node-api
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Pokemon GO api node.js library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Pokemon GO API library. Their work involved adding features like retrieving fort details and implementing evolve/transfer pokemon functionalities. They also modified existing code to integrate with the game's API, as indicated by changes to the protocol buffer definitions and associated JavaScript logic. The contributions included the addition of new data structures and API calls.
golangapijs-librarynode-jsnode-api
Acemobe/SpriterAS3Anim
Nov 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 3 pushes, 4 comments in 1 year 3 months
animationspriteranimateas3animations
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