Brennen Witzens

Experience

KidStrong

• Starting out as a Unity developer with a partial customer support role. I worked on two of the app that's allowed the KidStrong classes to run - KidStrong Coach" and "KidStrong TV"
• Initially we didn't have a dedicated backend team, so as backend needs were asked the developer tasked would do a "full-stack" style development for the feature. This was my first introduction into the backend side of development. After several tasks, I transitioned over to being a full time backend developer.
• Once transitioned over to backend development, I learned more with Typescript. Also learning Rust and Golang. As we transitioned from Typescript to Rust and Golang, we also moved away from the "traditional" REST API styling, we used GraphQL and Protobufs, and also looked into OpenAPI specs.

Competition Interactive: Virtual-Sports

• Wrote performant code and updated existing projects either alongside other developers or independently
• Worked with Git repositories for multiple projects
• Worked in Unity to develop iOS, Android, WebGL based applications

GameDevHQ

• A fast paced bootcamp that focused on Unity
• Designed and implemented custom editor tools, blended animations, and developed shaders.

Projects

Color Theme Maker

• This was a project related to Image and Color Quantization. Using different algorithms, I was trying to make a color theme based on an image passed in.

Discord Bot

• This was a project where I used the Serenity Rust create to make a discord bot. The main focus of this was to better understand the Discord API but also for fun.
• The idea behind the project was to make a randomized character set idea for a game called Naraka Bladepoint.