Rick Twohy
Senior Software Engineer at Live Oak Bank
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Twohy is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and graphics engines, blending production web architecture expertise (Go, Node, AWS, .NET, SQL) with deep low-level graphics skills (C++, Swift, Metal, OpenGL, 3D math). He currently ships scalable financial systems at Live Oak Bank and has driven cloud-native and serverless initiatives across companies like Red Ventures and Ally. Rick is also a passionate engine creator and educator—he maintains a portfolio site and a Metal shading tutorial series that reveal his appetite for teaching and pushing graphics tooling. Comfortable across full-stack development, game-engine internals, and service architecture, he aims to bridge backend engineering rigor with real-time graphics performance for game or graphics engine teams. An unusual strength is his combination of production backend experience and practical graphics pedagogy, making him effective at both shipping distributed systems and mentoring others in rendering fundamentals.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration; Marketing, Management & Entrepreneurship, Bachelor's of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration; Marketing, Management & Entrepreneurship at Graceland UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science and Web Development, 2.85, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Web Development, 2.85 at Iowa State University
English
Github Skills (11)
game-engine10
youtube10
nodejs6
javascript5
typescript4
apigee2
docker1
javafx1
terraform1
java1
react1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
twohyjr/Twohys-Game-Engine
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:116 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
2etime/Dark-Engine
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
TODO
Contributions:121 commits, 24 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 month
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