Nate R.

Experience

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  Krome Studios

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2008

  Games Network Programmer

  Worked as a network & UI programmer on Viva Pinata: Party Animals (released 2007) and SceneIt: Box Office Smash (released 2008). Solely responsible for the entire networking implementation. Designed a large scale, peer-to-peer networking system to manage large volumes of distributed, dynamic, physics objects over low-bandwidth connections, which was later used in Star Wars: Clone Wars.

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  Frontier Developments

  Oct 2008 - Jul 2009

  Senior Games Engineer

  Worked the early stages of two major projects that were to later become Zoo Tycoon (released 2013) and Elite: Dangerous (released 2014). Primarily focusing on navigation and AI. Worked on profiling and optimising threads and internal algorithms to squeeze out vital resources. Managed and aided peers.Built with C++, LUA, SVN.

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  Opportunity Links

  Jul 2009 - Aug 2010

  Senior Web Developer

  Worked to build several new local-government platforms for various services.Built with C#, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, Solr/Lucene.

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  Keksia

  Jul 2010 - now

  Founder, CTO

  Services for enterprise software development and animated media production.

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  AlertMe.com

  Aug 2010 - Jul 2011

  Contract PHP/JavaScript Web Developer

  Worked on designing and developing home automation widgets, maintaining and improving the architecture of the custom engine and RESTful API, and working with low-level hardware to stream RTSP video content to the browser (before these technologies were readily available in the browser).Built with PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, TRAC, JIRA, SVN.

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  Exposure

  Jul 2011 - Jul 2011

  Contract PHP Web Developer

  Worked on an investment social networking website powered by Wordpress.Built with PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, CSS, SVN.

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  Time Out

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2012

  Contract PHP/JS Developer

  Worked in an Agile (Scrum) team to develop features of TimeOut's new web platform. Responsible for API development, the security system implementation, porting of legacy systems, booking integrations, third-party data imports, various UI implementations and new city deployments.Built with PHP, JS, Symfony, MySQL, TDD.

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  InterMenu

  Aug 2021 - Jun 2023

  Founder, CTO

  Founder and sole-developer of a new multi-national PoS with integrated customer menu, for restaurants, cafes and bars. Includes advanced features such as a QR menu builder, in-menu order handling, in-menu payment processing, customisable orders (with options), booking & table management, sales & stock tracking, printable menus, receipt and order thermal printing and more!Built using TypeScript, Node, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Electron and running on bare-metal Kubernetes.