Dylan Heyes

MahiGaming — Las Vegas, NV

• Leadership & Scope: Progressed from senior engineer to principal architect, leading 20+ engineers across 4 studios with formal people management and organization-wide technical ownership.
• Platform Architecture: Architected a fully reusable, config-driven iGaming platform (TypeScript) where 100% of shipped games share a single runtime with no game-specific code.
• Extensibility & Reuse: Designed a plugin-driven, composable architecture for gameplay, math, UI, and features, extensible by any discipline and safely evolved across live titles.
• Visual Tooling: Built a Unity-like visual editor with runtime-interpreted node graphs, enabling real-time iteration, hot reload, and live desktop/mobile previews for engineers, designers, QA, and marketing.
• Scale & Reliability: Enabled 40 shipped iGaming titles processing 120M+ daily global rounds/transactions across multiple U.S. and European regulatory jurisdictions.
• Efficiency Gains: Reduced new-game staffing to 1–3 engineers and delivery time to ~3 months (down from 6+ months with 5–8 engineers), while significantly lowering certification effort, post-launch defects, and operational overhead.
• Quality Engineering: Designed and implemented an automated testing framework as a first-class platform component, supporting platform- and game-level unit and end-to-end tests.
• CI/CD & Automation: Established platform-scale CI pipelines (~1 hour) enforcing quality, compliance, and release readiness.
• Full-Stack Systems: Designed and delivered multiple full-stack internal platforms supporting development, operations, and leadership workflows using React, Node.js/NestJS, FastAPI, Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

AI & Advanced Tooling

• AI Systems: Designed and built AI-assisted game development tooling, including training data generation, model fine-tuning, and ML/LLM pipelines to generate node graphs, configuration, and game scaffolds from natural-language prompts.
• AI Infrastructure: Integrated and evaluated models using Microsoft AI Foundry, with lightweight internal infrastructure and developer tooling supporting experimentation and platform integration (internal alpha).

Leadership & Culture

• Culture Transformation: Transformed a previously siloed and adversarial culture into a collaborative, ownership-driven organization through transparent technical processes and shared documentation.
• Knowledge Sharing: Created and hosted a weekly voluntary platform forum for 5+ years, regularly attended by ~50% of the company, driving cross-team alignment and platform evolution.
• Mentorship & Growth: Led mentorship and talent development via formal quarterly reviews with SMART goals, direct coaching, and promotion advocacy (including outside engineering).
• Executive Partnership: Served as the primary technical partner to executive leadership, aligning business strategy, regulatory constraints, and long-term platform investment.

Gamesys — Las Vegas, NV

• Revenue Impact: Built shared engine systems supporting social casino titles generating ~$5M in monthly revenue.
• Engine Leadership: Promoted from Senior to Lead Game Developer; principal contributor to a Flash → HTML5 game engine transition, enabling cross-device compatibility and modern web standards.
• Live Operations: Worked in high-traffic, revenue-critical environments emphasizing performance, stability, and cross-device compatibility.
• Cross-Functional Delivery: Collaborated with product, design, math, and QA during a major platform modernization.

Genesis Gaming — Las Vegas, NV

• Engine Architecture: Designed and built a Flash-based casino game engine from scratch, reused by multiple engineers to ship production titles.
• Standardization: Established core engine architecture and development patterns that standardized game creation across the studio.
• Technical Leadership: Served as a technical leader supporting engineers and evolving the engine across multiple production releases.