Andrew Kane's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Andrew Kane has 10 years of experience in the technical lead positions of various game and online services engines, including C++, C#, Java, Python, and Databases. Kane is most recently a Technical Lead Game and Online Services Engineer at Penny Arcade, Inc. where he was responsible for developing and managing the game's backend and full-stack components. Kane also worked as President at Kane Technologies, where he created a small entrepreneurial web development company for hobbyist projects, web development, and web hosting solutions. He has also worked as a Senior Online Services Programmer at Crystal Dynamics in Redwood City, California, United States for 10 months as lead software engineer. Lastly, Kane was a Senior Server Engineer at Wormhole Games for 4 months in San Francisco, California.Kane's professional experience with Python allows him to build robust and efficient client side Crytpocurrency Wallets that run on top of the Ethereum blockchain. He has also successfully completed a number of Python-heavy web development projects, both with his own company and with other companies he has worked with. Kane is also experienced in data-driven websites based upon Drupal, Wordpress, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery technologies.

🎓 Education

Andrew Kane's educational background is in information technology, specifically in game development and database development. He has held an M.S. in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Information Technology from the same school. Kane's experience also includes two years of entrepreneurship experience as a graduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology.Kane has worked in various positions in the past and is currently a software engineer at a company in the early stages of development. His experience has shown him that he is capable of working in a wide range of positions, from those in the production line to those in the early stages of development. Kane has an ability to adapt and changes his approach to work to meet the needs of his current and future employers.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Andrew Kane is a Technical Lead Game and Online Services Engineer with 10 years of industry experience. Kane worked as a Technical Lead Game and Online Services Engineer at developing back-end and full-stack software with C++ and C#, developing Python and Databases, APIs, and more. Kane is currently a Enforcer Deputy at Penny Arcade, Inc, working at the company in March 2010 to August 2011 before becoming President at Kane Technologies. Kane was also the lead software engineer at Jam City from August 2017 to May 2018 in San Francisco, California, responsible for building a shared C# backend and client-side C$ codebase for a mobile, real-time battle arena game in Unity 3D and .NET Core. In February 2013, Kane formed a co-founded company with two friends, called Kane Technologies, which created a small entrepreneurial web development company for hobbyist projects, web development, and web hosting solutions, and managed clientsele, website deploys and maintenance, development, and project timelines. In January 2014, Kane partnered with the cross-studio core technology teams at Blizzard Entertainment and Midverse Studios, Inc to create a C++ library used across all Blizzard teams and games, and contribute to a company-wide fork of the C++ and Lua Premake project that provided cross-platform C++ libraries with minimal configuration and deterministic compilation. Kane was also a lead software engineer at Wormhole Games from September 2013 to December 2013 in San Francisco, California, responsible for creating a Python and MySQL REST API service for the iOS game Tank Nation. In September 2011, Kane formed a co-founded company with two friends, called Kane Technologies, which created a small entrepreneurial web development company for hobbyist projects, web development, and web hosting solutions, and managed clientslee, website deploys and maintenance, development, and project timelines. Kane is currently working as a senior software engineer at Loot Drop Inc, developing game features in a REST API on a LAMP stack using MySQL and PHP. In February 2013, Kane partnered with the cross-studio core technology teams at Blizzard Entertainment and Midverse Studios, Inc to create a C++ library used across all Blizzard teams and games, and contribute to a company-wide fork of the C++ and Lua Premake project that provided cross-platform C++ libraries with minimal configuration and deterministic compilation. In October 2012, Kane formed a co-founded company with two friends, called PlayPhone, which created a web interface for users to create triggers that specified analytical and A/B testing events. In February 2013, Kane formed a co-founded company with two friends, called Kane Technologies, which created a small entrepreneurial web development company for hobbyist projects, web development, and web hosting solutions. In September 2011, Kane partnered with the cross-studio core technology teams at Blizzard Entertainment and Midverse Studios, Inc to create a C++ library used across all Blizzard teams and games, and contribute to a company-wide fork of the C++ and Lua Premake project that provided cross-platform C++ libraries with minimal configuration and deterministic compilation.