Russell Matney
Director Of Games Engineering at Danger Russ Games
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.
13 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)
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game-development10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
lambduh/lambduh
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Composable modules intended for use with AWS Lambda functions
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 2 comments in 1 month
aws-lambdalambda
lambduh/lambduh-gulp
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
A handful of gulp commands typical to building AWS Lambda functions
Contributions:12 releases, 32 commits, 9 PRs in 7 months
aws-lambdagulplambda
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