Tommy Heffernan
Senior Software Engineer at Metropolis Technologies
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Heffernan is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building games and large-scale web applications, currently focused on social gaming and shared player experiences from his base in Santa Monica. He has moved between hands-on engineering and short-term management at PlayVS, led mobile game development as Project Co-Lead at Laconian Games, and now contributes to Metropolis Technologies’ engineering efforts. Comfortable across full stacks—Go, Java, React/Redux, and PostgreSQL—he combines product polish with pragmatic system design and a history of shipping mission-critical features for enterprise and consumer platforms. A former solo freelancer, he’s proven at owning projects end-to-end, including architecting a full-scale web app, and brings a gamer’s eye for community-driven mechanics and delightful UX.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Harvard UniversityHackley School
Github Skills (28)
directions9
engine7
package-control7
vagrant7
entity-component6
ansible6
docker6
ruby6
game-development5
rust5
data-processing5
virtualization5
automation5
development-tools5
game-engine5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tdheff/tomfiles
Jan 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 issue in 7 years 6 months
tdheff/EmoKid
Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year
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