Ben D. Wiklund

Work experience

Founder

Reaction Digital Media, 2020 - present

Maintained and expanded a suite of brain games and computer hardware tests on two web properties.

Published two sucessful video games on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

Sigma Computing

Software Engineer, 2019 - 2020

Added new features to a BI/Dataviz SAAS.

Improved stack (translated entire frontend codebase to Typescript), expanded tests, interviewed new candidates.

Improved formula parser codebase (think excel sheets).

Founder

Reaction Digital Media, 2016 - 2019

Maintained and expanded a suite of brain games and computer hardware tests on two web properties.

Samsung

Augmented / Virtual Reality Engineer, 2015

Built prototype AR/VR demos with designers and computer vision experts.

Architected and implemented a network stack for realtime motion tracking and interaction.

Created plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Left Field Labs

Technical Lead, 2014 - 2015

Built interactive 3d apps, games, and websites for a number of clients, primarily Google.

Developed a single page streaming video platform for Google Atmosphere.

Created demo apps for Google’s Project Tango, using Unity and WebGL.

Provided guidance and assistance to new developers working on on-domain Google sites.

Sony Computer Entertainment America (Gaikai)

Software Engineer, 2013 - 2014

Designed and implemented the company's cloud dashboard.

Created tools and APIs for team members to build modular components for the dashboard.

Created data visualizations for a large steaming infrastructure.

Sleepy Giant

Frontend Engineer, 2012 - 2013

Led a team of frontend developers.

Designed and implemented customer facing sites for Disney, Marvel, Fox, Zenimax, and others.

Prototyped mobile games built with Unity.

Bartlett Interactive

Lead Web Developer, 2008 - 2012

Created a web based dashboard for consumer installations of solar panels.

Designed tools for dealing with a large database of state educational standards.

DT Media Group

Lead Web Developer, 2006-2008

Maintained and improved a popular restaurant search engine.

Technical Skills

Expert

React, Angular/AngularJS, Typescript, Javascript, C#, Unity, Unreal, OpenGL, ThreeJS, Procedural Geneneration, Java, CoffeeScript, HTML5, AngularJS, RoR

Experienced

C, C++, Ruby, Flash/ActionScript

Content Creation Tools

Creative Suite, Blender, various DAWs.

Obligatory list of markup languages

HTML, CSS, SASS, SCSS, Stylus, Jade, Slim, Haml, etc

References

Available upon request