Jason Hutchens

Created an open-source Ruby gem that brings the Entity-Component-System pattern to ActiveRecord, with one table per component instead of one per model. Published on RubyGems as ecs on rails.

Designed and built a native desktop app that brings Perforce-style time-lapse blame to git, in C++ with SDL3 and Dear ImGui, working alongside AI coding agents. Launched v1.0 in July 2026 with signed builds for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Improved automated test performance by 5x, added autoscaling and read-only follower databases, and built live/demo shard-based autoswitching. Introduced state machines, service objects and other best practices; built bank statement import, parsing, transaction tagging and data extraction.

Ported David Braben's Lander to C++ from a commented disassembly of its ARM code. Converted Simon Owen's Augmentinel from Win32 and Direct3D to SDL and OpenGL, adding macOS and Linux support.

Managed a fully remote team of up to a dozen developers, designers and QA, establishing async standups, code review processes and video demonstrations of completed work. Wrote a data analytics and reporting engine, with a realtime user engagement front-end.

Built a password manager in Flutter using libSodium to derive secure passwords from a seed passphrase and service details, eliminating the need to store passwords. Launched on Android, iOS and desktop.

Formed a game collective with three friends, shipping one game per month. Built and shipped seven games in vanilla C using Raylib, Flecs, cJSON and Nuklear.

Implemented a serverless API using AWS Lambda with Go functions. Set up end-to-end React Native app build and deployment to iOS and Android.

Started with six former employees of Interzone to pitch an Xbox360 title to Microsoft. Launched two titles on the iPhone and one title on the iPad.

Implemented a dependency-driven event queue to recalculate expensive derived data. Wrote a unit conversion extension to ActiveRecord, cleanly separating concerns.

Developed an innovative text entry technology to replace unwieldy OSKs. Launched a static web application with the best Q&As from Stack Overflow.

Worked on well bore visualisation, correlation and mistie correction in Java. Returned to the workforce following a six-month sabbatical.

Introduced JIRA, daily stand-ups and weekly project post-mortems. Specified and designed an email campaign manager, and oversaw its development in Rails.

Joined six months before a drop-deadline product launch, with no development team. Interviewed and hired a development team of three people from over a hundred applicants.

Managed a team of thirteen programmers, while still writing C++ and Python myself. Worked with production, art and design to ensure features were technically feasible.

Responsible for designing AI technology and implementing the bulk of the design in C++. Interviewed, hired, mentored and supervised a team of six developers.

Fixed race conditions in unit tests that involved multi-threaded network communications. Wrote a tool to process, resample and export large volumes of multi-channel audio.

Built an interactive mapping system for a local real estate business. Built a centralised workflow operations system for a chain of car repair centres.

Designed and implemented language acquisition algorithms. Based in Tel Aviv, with regular trips to London where work continued remotely.

Designed a scripting language for game designers and built a compiler to generate executable bytecode from their pseudo-code scripts. Built a multi-threaded stack-based VM to execute the bytecode.

Created a novel chatbot engine and sold it to a company in Germany. Developed a 'kitchen sink' web portal for a South African entrepreneur.

Wrote programs in QuickBasic and ported legacy programs from Fortran. Tested various materials by installing 'strain gauges' before subjecting them to destructive tensile forces.

PhD (ABD) from the University of Western Australia, developing a sophisticated predictive small language model in C. Thesis submitted in 1999.

Grade: A+

Bachelor of Engineering (IT) degree from the University of Western Australia, with straight A+ grades in final year.