Richard Gibson
Software Engineer at EA SPORTS
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRichard Gibson is a software engineer with over a decade of experience bridging academia and production game development, currently leading gameplay and AI at Metalhead Software for the Super Mega Baseball series. He is the founder of SportsBid Fantasy Sports and Robot Shark Gaming, applying game-theoretic AI to sports, poker bots, and analytics tools for professional players. A former member of the Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta, he authored Hyperborean3p, once among the world's leading 3-player Texas Hold'em programs. His career spans roles from animation engineering on Pirates of the Caribbean: Armana of the Damned to teaching assistant work at the University of Alberta and early research in graph theory and circadian rhythms. Based in Victoria, BC, he holds a PhD in Computer Science with a strong mathematics background and is driven by turning complex problems into accessible, high-performance gaming experiences.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of AlbertaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics at University of VictoriaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics at Simon Fraser University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
endpoints8
react8
authentication7
google6
google-app-engine6
django-rest-framework6
python6
single-page6
django6
gcp5
google-cloud5
base-class5
rest5
json4
django-framework4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rggibson/pb-tracker
Sep 2013 - Sep 2021
Contributions:311 commits, 1 PR, 77 pushes in 8 years 1 month
reacttimesspeedrunningtracking
rggibson/personal-webpage
Jan 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:27 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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