Russell Matney
Director Of Games Engineering at Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Matney is a games engineering leader and indie developer with 12 years of full-stack web and data engineering experience who now ships commercial and open-source games from New York. As Director of Games Engineering at Encyclopaedia Britannica he coordinates cross-functional teams on a suite of web games while running his indie studio, Danger Russ Games, which released three Steam titles in 2024 and is porting Dot Hop to iOS and Android. He blends hands-on Godot game development and tooling (including a Godot pretty-printer) with a background in Clojure/Babashka and deployment-grade web stacks. Known for moving fast, obsessing over tools, and improving team workflows, he has a track record of hiring and managing small, passionate engineering teams. An early-career biomedical engineering graduate, he brings a pragmatic, minimalist approach to building sustainable indie game businesses.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Gonzaga College High SchoolBachelor of Science Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Biomedical Engineering at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (200)
vim10
vte10
babashka10
windows10
window-manager10
game-engine10
emacs-lisp10
high-performance10
bsd10
tiling10
gpu10
flask10
gdscript10
emacs10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
russmatney/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1248 commits, 1 PR, 1123 pushes in 7 years 6 months
russmatney/dothop
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:237 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 1 month
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