Sam Kalish
Technical Lead at High Voltage Games
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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SeniorSam Kalish is a technical lead and self-taught entrepreneur from the Chicago area with 8 years of experience building games and developer tools, primarily in Lua and Node.js, with Rust proficiency. He founded and scaled SimpleAdmin and SimpleAnticheat on Roblox—tools that together drove tens of thousands of sales and protect hundreds of games while detecting thousands of cheaters monthly. At Gamefam and MetaMethod he led development for high-profile partnerships (Disney, Mattel, Hasbro, DreamWorks) and architected large game frameworks and analytics systems that reach hundreds of thousands of daily players. He also translated product and growth instincts into a successful service business, turning $500 into nearly $30k in bookings in a few months. Known for combining engineering craft with marketing and copywriting skills, he often blends technical solutions with business-forward thinking to deliver measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
lua10
roblox10
admin10
server-side9
debug8
debugging8
code-optimization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Epix-Incorporated/Adonis
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Roblox Server Administration System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Adonis Roblox server administration system. Their contributions include bug fixes related to misleading game ban hints and potential memory leaks within the Insert function. They also implemented security enhancements to the anti-cheat system, including bypass detection and recursive checks within the CoreGui. Furthermore, the user refactored parts of the flynoclip functionality.
robloxsystem-administrationadminadministrationadonis-loader
crywink/SimpleAdmin
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
SimpleAdmin is a game-management suite designed to act as a total solution to controlling your game.
Contributions:106 commits, 34 PRs, 84 pushes in 9 months
acttotalgamemanagement-gamecontrolling
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