Brian Aston

Designed and implemented 100% of C# gameplay logic, including player input, UI interactions, and animations. Delivered 5 playable builds in 3 weeks based on player feedback, accelerating design decisions. Coordinated with team of artists, technical artists, and designers to facilitate cross discipline communication in development of game.

Architecture Modernization: Led a structural refactor of a monolithic commercial API, migrating to a Route-Service-Repository pattern to decouple business logic from data persistence and improve code maintainability. Full-Stack Development: Designed and launched a greenfield Flask application from scratch to facilitate equitable contract distribution for Houston-area businesses (MWBE/Veteran-owned). Cloud & Database Management: Orchestrated relational data modeling using SQL Server and managed cloud deployment via Azure Web Services, ensuring consistent availability for 500+ regional users. Quality Assurance: Engineered a comprehensive testing suite using Python unittest, covering data model integrity and end-to-end integration flows to ensure platform reliability.

Led 2–3 students per team in delivering production-grade features for external clients using TypeScript, GraphQL, and React. Engineered numerous functionalities for an in-house, white-labeled, student management system with 1000+ of users written in Django using Python. Built a Django/Python REST API from scratch in 2 months, supporting 100+ users internally and externally. Achieved 100% test coverage using Jest, Vitest, and React Testing Library, and Django Unittest reducing post-deployment bugs and ensuring integrity of core curriculum exercises. Wrote internal documentation and tooling, reducing student setup, onboarding and debugging time from 4+ hours to 1 hour .

Wrote unit tests for Student Information services website. Designed, wrote, and tested a form in Django to allow authenticated users to add events to the upcoming curriculum. Designed and prototyped a React-Native App based on the student information services web application. Wrote custom API routes to manage data on the front-end application. Refactored existing codebase to include new functionality for receiving, storing, and displaying Enrollment/Withdrawal forms. Designed and implemented several JSON serializers for backend API calls Used GIT versioning software to branch and compose pull requests for all of the implemented code that was written

Analyzed large amounts of health records and complex work histories to create evidentiary claims for clients. Assigned to high value cases of $100,000 plus valued clients. Created claims under tight deadlines by collaborating with managing attorneys and acting as liaison between departments. Communicated directly with partners on the status of important clients and ensuring quick turnover.

Assembled and maintained diesel engine components Prepared and shipped customer orders under strict deadlines

Transferred into the Computer Science: Game Design program, which included emphasis on: -Learning Game Development process -Learning Games programming