Tom Blind
CCO at Sunblink
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTom Blind is a game-focused technology leader and entrepreneur with nine years of current experience and a two-decade career designing and shipping games across mobile, PC, and console. As CCO at Sunblink and founder of Babble Tower Games, he blends creative direction with hands-on engineering, having led design and studios since founding Backflip Studios and launching multiple hit mobile titles. He contributes to open-source tooling and embedded systems—working on projects like moonlight-embedded (gamestream client) and TypeScriptToLua—demonstrating practical skills from IoT video/touch integration to transpiler bug fixes. Tom is adept at turning prototypes into polished products, building design teams, and formalizing usability and monetization practices. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he mixes indie sensibilities with studio-scale process discipline to make approachable, addictive games. An interesting through-line: he pairs deep technical fixes in niche open-source projects with big-picture game design leadership.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Game Design and Development, Bachelor of Science, Game Design and Development at Full Sail University
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Github Skills (21)
transcode10
typescript10
c1110
c1710
lua10
compiler-compiler10
sys10
transpiler10
typescript-types10
touchscreen10
compiler10
embedded10
typescripts10
raspberry-pi10
javascript9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
Typescript to lua transpiler. https://typescripttolua.github.io/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 reviews, 140 commits, 208 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom contributed to the `typescripttolua/typescripttolua` repository, a TypeScript to Lua transpiler, by implementing features that improve the conversion of TypeScript code into Lua. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to features like declaration merging, tuple returns, assignment order in exported namespaces, recursion in functions, and properties on functions. They also implemented and optimized various aspects of the transpilation process.
luacompilerlua-transpilertranspilertypescript
moonlight-stream/moonlight-embedded
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Gamestream client for embedded systems
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the `moonlight-embedded` project, a gamestream client for embedded systems. Their work focused on adding and modifying code related to video rotation and touchscreen input for the target embedded platforms, likely Raspberry Pi. They implemented display rotation features for both OMX and MMAL video decoders, added command-line options to control rotation, and integrated touchscreen functionality, including emulating right-click actions.
moonlightvaapigamestreamembedded-systemsembedded
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