Jakob Neild.

Solo-shipped a production multiplayer MMO, owning every layer: game design, system architecture, CI/CD, and production monitoring. Real-time state synchronization via SSE, distributed background job processing, and a 180+ card game engine with PvP, adversary AI, and prestige systems.

• Solo-owned full product and deployment lifecycle
• Real-time SSE with distributed resolver engine
• Dockerized infrastructure with Nginx reverse proxy on AWS
• JWT + OAuth, rate limiting, Helmet.js security hardening

SEO-optimized directory of the top 10 free browser strategy games. Data-driven Astro site with individual game pages, structured JSON-LD, FAQ schema, and a sitemap — built to rank and funnel traffic to niche strategy titles.

• Data-driven static pages via Astro content templates
• Schema.org VideoGame + FAQ structured data for rich results
• Full SEO stack: canonical URLs, OG tags, sitemap, robots.txt
• 301 redirect handling for legacy .html URLs

Solo-built a full-featured ESL platform for Brazilian learners with adaptive placement testing, 6 interactive exercise types, gamification with XP and streaks, and Stripe payments supporting PIX, Boleto, and cards. 26 pages, 50 components, 23 API routes, and a Portuguese-localized interface.

• Full platform: auth, payments, learning modules, admin panel
• Adaptive placement test that calibrates CEFR level
• Stripe with PIX + Boleto Bancário for Brazilian payments
• PT-BR localization with 370+ translation keys

Designed a data platform to surface high-value B2B sales opportunities from fragmented federal datasets. Aggregates ~120K elder care facilities from 5 sources, deduplicates with multi-tier fuzzy matching, geocodes with spatial query support, and scores leads using CMS staffing and financial signals.

• End-to-end pipeline: ingestion → dedup → geocoding → scoring
• 5-tier deduplication (exact, fuzzy, Jaro-Winkler)
• Weighted lead scoring with portfolio & staffing analysis
• Census Bureau + Nominatim geocoding pipeline

Co-led development of a multiplayer Roblox PvP game over 370+ combined hours, managing the full production pipeline: task planning, team coordination, weekly standups, and asset creation alongside client-server game architecture.

• Managed full production pipeline across 2-month sprint
• Client-server architecture with real-time multiplayer
• Hundreds of custom rasterized game assets
• Team coordination: task tracking, standups, personnel management

Built and deployed an MVP in under 12 hours: requirements, design, implementation, and deployment. Pixel-based advertising grid inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage with dynamic cell claiming and automatic image processing.

• Concept to deployed MVP in under 12 hours
• Full ownership: requirements → design → ship
• Image upload with automatic crop and resize
• Mobile-responsive design

Extensible automation framework with a plugin architecture for multi-site adapters. Configurable behavior profiles with session persistence, proxy rotation, and structured logging.

• Plugin-based adapter architecture
• Configurable persona/behavior profiles
• Session persistence & proxy rotation
• Winston structured logging

Aggregation tool that collects listings from 5 job platforms in parallel, deduplicates results, and produces scored/ranked reports based on configurable profile matching.

• 5 platform adapters with parallel execution
• YAML-driven profile matching & scoring
• Automated deduplication pipeline
• Report generation with ranked output