Mitch Dawdy

Gameplay engineer working on the popular game Minecraft Bedrock Edition.

● Lead engineer for an MMO RPG game made within Minecraft. ● Responsible for coordinating and integrating multiple facets of development. This includes but is not limited to game/backend code (Java), website (Javascript), discord bots (Typescript), automation tools (Java), and web servers (Java). ● Responsible for writing and maintaining performance driven code. This includes reviewing and merging pull requests from other team members on github. ● Experience implementing various assets in-game, such as key-framed animations and textures. ● Wrote automated tasks such as a deploy tool to quickly and safely deploy new patches to game servers. ● Responsible for maintaining Game Servers hosted on virtual machines using Linux. ● Experience dealing with domains and nameservers. ● Worked with various non-engineer type roles to implement new assets into the game (mostly artists & animators). ● Responsible for improving server security using various techniques such as IP tables and SSH keys. ● Experience securing our website and REST API with HTTPS using SSL certificates (OpenSSL). ● Experience writing and deploying a simple authentication server that hashes and salts user passwords using PBKDF2 hashing algorithm. (C++) ● Responsible for coordinating and streamlining communication between development teams.