About

Hi, I’m Tim, a Senior Backend Engineer at Escape Velocity Entertainment.

I work on the backend, using Pragma.gg.

I’m a big fan of schemes, the KISS paradigm, and it-shouldn’t-be-this-difficult-driven-development.

I avoid UI work as best I can.

I love creating new internal one-off tools to help development. My current list is:

  • Gimmie Logs
  • Automatic Patch Notes
  • Benchamin
  • Go Vizzy Telemy
  • Go Tail Me A Log

I don’t understand why so many game studios combine gameserver work with backend and infrastructure work in a single role, but perhaps that’s just my bias against C++ leaking. I have a standing grant offer to Epic of $10 USD to support Go for Unreal development.

Every once in a while I’ll run into a fun bug or want to share my thoughts on something I probably shouldn’t (like combining benchmarking, loadtesting, and integration testing), so I finally broke down and started a blog.

Core tenants:

  • I live my life a quarter mile at a time.
  • Gotta support the homies.

Games I’ve shipped: