Colin Young

Dosimetron is a cross-platform mobile and arcade game that was custom-built for LANDAUER, a radiology company that wanted to market a new product in an extremely novel way. They took a chance on a really cool marketing idea: Launch a product using a playable game in a real live arcade cabinet at a tradeshow. The arcade game had lines throughout the weekend because it prioritized actually being fun to play over including the company's marketing. I was very proud to make something replayable and enjoyable, having studied games in college but never shipping one of my own until Dosimetron. It was coded in Cocos-2D and HTML5, and as a fully cross-platform app, also has an Android version. It was delivered as a Mac App, an iOS app (linked above), and an Android app.

Last fall, I taught a ten-week course on Minecraft modding to middle schoolers at a local code school here in Chicago. I collaborated on this curriculum with the founder of the school, Tamasin, across several meetings prior to the class and during. We iterated on it like any other software project, and taught kids to code in the process. I'm very passionate about teaching code, and taught MIT Scratch through Citizen Schools prior to this course.

cancan_strong_parameters has over 50 stars on GitHub because it solved a key problem for those using the popular cancan gem in 2012-2014. While the gem is now inactive--cancan's developers themselves have finally solved the underlying problem after a 3 year wait--it is a great example of my code quality and ability to manage a repository that others depend on.