Steve Mcilwain
Indie Game Developer Founder at Playable Design
New York, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Mcilwain is an indie game developer and studio founder in New York with 10 years of professional experience blending hands-on engineering, game design, art/animation, and cloud architecture. He transitioned from senior cloud and security leadership roles—VP Engineering and CTO positions and a stint at AWS—into building games with Unity and Godot while also contracting to augment other studios. His background in offensive security (OSCP), secure SDLC practices, and large-scale architecture gives him a unique lens for building resilient, performant game systems and tooling. Steve is comfortable leading cross-functional teams, shipping product-focused features, and writing low-level technical solutions when needed. He’s as likely to sketch game mechanics or animate assets as he is to design secure cloud proofs-of-concept, bringing both creative and security-first engineering to indie game development. An entrepreneur at heart, he leverages decades of operational and M&A experience to run a small studio that prioritizes quality, security, and scalable workflows.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Foreign Language, Bachelor's degree, Foreign Language at Mississippi State University
English, German, Russian, Tagalog
Github Skills (39)
penetration-testing10
runtimes10
animation10
game-dev10
skeletal-animation10
hacking10
pentesting10
kali-linux10
2d10
spine10
testing9
security9
llc9
surface9
zsh9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stevemcilwain/Moodledy
Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
Pacifist Game Jam 2022 Entry
Contributions:10 PRs, 33 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 9 months
gamegame-jamjam
4n6strider/attackbook
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Penetration Tester Gitbook
Contributions:14 commits in 14 days
securitypenetrationpenetration-testinggitbookpentesting
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