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Building Gourd to Death: a fighting game inside Rive
From pumpkin character art to a 3D fighter, with Rive state machines, a Luau combat engine, and build-time fixes for sliding feet and uneven motion.
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Building Gourdgeous: a pumpkin designer in Rive
How I built a jack-o’-lantern editor with Rive GPU Canvas and Codex, from procedural carving and candlelight to motion, local saves, and image export.
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A few professional stats
My experience and strengths
- years in technology
- 25
- companies worked with
- 20+
- years consulting
- 14+
- remote career
- 100%
Personality
- Self-directed
- High autonomy
- Direct
- Precise communication
- Pragmatic
- Outcome-oriented
- Adaptable
- Across disciplines
- Thorough
- Quality-minded
- Skeptical
- Tests assumptions
Reasoning
- Systems thinking
- Signature
- Root-cause analysis
- Signature
- Cross-domain synthesis
- Signature
- Evidence evaluation
- Strong
- Practical judgment
- Signature
- Learning agility
- Strong
Professional Strengths
- Product ownership
- Signature
- Design engineering
- Signature
- Systems architecture
- Signature
- Technical leadership
- Strong
- Product & growth
- Strong
- Technical communication
- Strong
Technical Depth
- PHP / Laravel / SQL
- Signature
- React / Vue / TypeScript
- Signature
- AI agents / MCP
- Signature
- Swift / iOS / Electron
- Strong
- C++ / JUCE / VST/AU
- Working
- Python / Ruby
- Working
Best-fit Environment
- Broad ownership
- Autonomous teams
- Complex problems
- Direct communication
Assessment by OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, September 2026. Qualitative synthesis of career materials.
Signature = defining strength. Strong = established practice. Working = limited experience.
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