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Brent Dunham
Principal engineer and engineering leader with 25+ years shipping high-scale software, from healthcare platforms to games with tens of millions of players. Most recently at The Wildcard Alliance I built the studio's applied-AI systems and the real-time platform behind its live-service title. I work on the platform under the model: durable agent runtimes, evaluation people can trust, and the infrastructure that keeps both affordable.
Experience
- The Wildcard Alliance2022–2026Principal Engineer
- PeopleFun2021–2022Principal Engineer
- Playful Corp2013–2021Principal Engineer
- Newtoy (acquired by Zynga)2010–2013Principal Engineer
- CONEXIS2002–2010IT Architect
- Impact Innovation2001–2002Senior Software Architect
- KPMG2000–2001Senior Software Architect
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Shipped
Words With Friends · Creativerse · Lucky's Tale · Super Lucky's Tale · Wordscapes · Bricks n Balls · Wildcard
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A service for running LLM agents as durable jobs: runs stream to any client, pause for human approval, survive restarts and can be rewound. A research agent over the web and your own documents, with a critic and a citation verifier, measured by an eval harness with a calibrated judge.
- briefings with 80%+ of claims cited, after a citation verifier
- 48% → 95%briefings with 80%+ of claims cited, after a citation verifier
- judge agreement with human labels, after recalibration
- 92%judge agreement with human labels, after recalibration
- to re-test a prompt change over 24 runs, by replaying every unchanged model call
- $0.90to re-test a prompt change over 24 runs, by replaying every unchanged model call
In progressA multiplayer environment that measures whether AI agents can pass as human players. An eval for agent behaviour, and the same problem from the other side as bot detection.
In progressA Rust and Bevy multiplayer engine where human browser clients and AI agents are the same kind of participant, so the server cannot tell them apart. Netcode over WebTransport with lightyear.
ProductionThe applied-AI systems I built at The Wildcard Alliance: an LLM content pipeline on IBM Granite, a vision-model captioning service on ChromaDB, agents that playtest builds in CI, MCP servers in daily engineering work, and an adoption program that reached 80% of the team.
ShippedWords With Friends through its peak growth, Creativerse through years of live operation, Wordscapes for tens of millions of monthly players, and Wildcard, a live-service UE5 title whose viewer platform sustained 10,000+ concurrent viewers per match.