Oliver Akins
Software Developer & Engineer
Oliver is a Canadian with a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan. He has experience doing full stack web development, game programming with Unity, and backend programming with Python and Typescript.
- Location
- Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada
- oliver@akins.me
- Website
- https://oliver.akins.me
- Oliver-Akins
Experience
– present
Contract Character Sheet Developer at Roll20
Creating and maintaining character sheets for the Roll20 Virtual Tabletop ecosystem.
Highlights
- Collaborated with 4 others to release the Candela Obscura character sheet 2 weeks early.
- Collaborated with 10 others to release the Dungeons and Dragons 2024 character sheet on time.
- Communicated across teams in order to facilitate improved inter-team collaboration.
- Developed foundational infrastructure in order for the Dungeons and Dragons 2024 character sheet to be able to operate with all the requirements.
- Prevented knowledge siloing by presenting complex topics to other team members to help them understand more of the codebase.
- Advised as the Subject Matter Expert on how the entire codebase interacted between the two halves of the team that worked on the different aspects of the team's codebase.
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Software Developer & Support Operative at StickyPiston Hosting
StickyPiston Hosting is a Minecraft server host that aims to help lower the barrier to entry for hosting your own server.
Highlights
- Interfacing with customers to answer questions and resolve problems.
- Designing and Developing brand new systems for customers and staff to utilize, improving efficiency in task performance by 50%.
- Designing, Developing, and Releasing features to internal and external systems.
- Implemented a system that monitors resources used by the Java Virtual Machine for storing and viewing how the server is performing over time, as well as receiving live updates over a websocket.
- Implemented a daemon service to perform tasks automatically to reduce load on support staff by ~72%.
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Software Developer at Freelance Developer
Working to repair a computational poetry exhibit for Mary Flanagan
Highlights
- Repairing old JavaScript and HTML code for a computational poetry exhibit being shown by Mary Flanagan.
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Software Engineer at Resonym
Creating a web-based prototype for their game titled Phantom Ink. In-Depth details can be found on the project page
Highlights
- Designed an interface for the online implementation of the game "Phantom Ink" in collaboration with the resident artist within Resonym.
- Implemented the user interface and server in such a way that allowed the designers of the game to playtest different rules for the game easily.
- Created a game-system that allows for real-time gameplay between web browsers
- Setup and managed the server that the web services are hosted on
- Performed maintenance on the site to keep it operational and fix any bugs found during public usage when Resonym was promoting the game.
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Web Designer at Dumpco
Designed and built a website for a local company for them to begin working on their online presence.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan
Diploma in High School from the Spruce Grove Composite High School
Languages
- English
- Fluency: Native speaker
- Swedish
- Fluency: Elementary proficiency
Skills
- Web Development
- Level: IntermediateKeywords:
- Backend Programming
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Interests
- Games
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- Music
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