Our team
Chris Alderson
Chris has more than 18 years career experience as a game artist and developer. His specialties include concept art, visual design, and content creation. He has a dog named Fergie who is super cool.
Colin Armstrong
Colin brings 5 years of software development experience and a lifelong passion for games to Polyarc. A Whidbey Island native, he enjoys baking, blacksmithing and exploring the outdoors with his lovely wife.
Tam Armstrong
Tam is a lifelong game developer with more than 18 years of professional experience. His background is in game systems, artificial intelligence and character animation engineering, but his passion is for the creative process as a whole.
Ralph Belfiore
Ralph has almost a decade in accounting and finance experience, with more than half of his career being in the games industry. He has a penchant for process optimization, financial modeling, and turning anything around him into a makeshift drum set.
Kelly Bennett
Kelly has been developing games, web pages, iPhone apps, and more for nearly 10 years. Kelly studied 3D Animation and Design at the Art Institute and is an avid art and design enthusiast. When not programming, you can find Kelly making art, playing his beloved piano, complaining about being too cold, or climbing the Rocket League ranks.
Peter Boldt, CFA
Peter has more than 10 years of finance, investment, and business intelligence experience. He brings strategic thinking, a love of games, and a passion for single origin coffee that we couldn't live without.
Chris Bourassa
Chris has been in the games industry for over 10 years, bouncing between programming and design, always with the focus on gameplay and tuning. He is also a fighting game enthusiast and e-sports fan.
Danny Bulla
Danny has been developing games professionally for over 10 years. His design specialties include game flow, feel, and depth. He is an avid music lover and competitive multiplayer enthusiast.
Doug Burton
Doug has been developing games for more than a decade and loves tackling creative problem-solving. When he's not creating game worlds he enjoys board games, escape rooms, and trivia nights.
Eric Chen
I have played a part in various aspects of game development over the past 9 years, ranging from gameplay, graphics, to console integration. I'm also an avid rock climber who perhaps spend too much time at the climbing gym. When I'm not working or climbing, I enjoy studying Japanese and playing all kinds of indie games and competitive games. Celeste and TFT are my current addictions!
Eric Childs
Eric has 10+ years of animation experience between the entertainment and game industries. When he isn't watching The Great British Baking Show or Survivor, he enjoys writing music, exploring the outdoors, and spending time with his family.
Lincoln Davis
Lincoln has more than twenty years of experience leading marketing, communications, social media, partnerships, sales, and business development programs with some of the top brands around.
Mike Felice
Mike has crafted game systems professionally for more than a decade. He enjoys practicing sign language, exploring the culinary world, teaching yoga, and following his interests to new adventures.
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Ian Flower
With a background in Physics and Nuclear Reactors, Ian has been a gameplay programmer since 2014, with particular experience in animation systems. He likes puzzles, British panel shows, and the Oakland A's.
Aaron Hedquist
Aaron has been working in interactive media for 15 years. Born in a town of 382 people in rural Oregon, he was introduced to programming on a C-64. He loves collaborating with other disciplines to bring impactful experiences to players. Outside of work he loves to hike with his dog Kia, play board games, watch terrible or excellent movies, and play soccer.
Todd Helsley
Todd has been filling games with ear-candy since 2011. When not working on game audio, he enjoys hanging out with his family, exploring various hobbies, devouring audiobooks (mostly sci-fi), and, of course, playing games.
Alex Holodak
Alex brings nearly a decade of DevOps and AWS Cloud experience to Polyarc. A veteran of various NYC startups, he hasn’t met a system that he hasn’t optimized. A New Jersey native and father of two, Alex is an avid PC gamer, tech enthusiast, chef, and world traveler.
Argus Hulin
Argus has 9 years of production experience in the games industry. As a lifelong gamer, he is passionate about developing strategies that ensure teams can achieve their creative goals. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, craft beer, and pancakes.
Mike Jensen
Mike broke into the game industry with Bungie, and has 5 years of experience. He specializes in character art and design, but also likes to branch out and fill new shoes.
Stephanie Jessel
Stephanie has spent her career building and scaling the people function for early stage tech companies. Starting earlier in her career working in games she has an understanding and love of working with creative, collaborative teams. Outside of work, she spends her time playing in the outdoors, exploring local or far lands, and on occasion relaxing in her garden.
Bryan Keithley
Bryan broke into games as a writer and has remained a champion for story-driven awesomeness even as his career became more technical. He has worked for such companies as Activision, NCSOFT, Amazon Games, and Wonderstorm. Bryan has lost hundreds of hours of his life to Honour Mode in Divinity: Original Sin 2 and is not sorry about it.
Kieran Lampert
Kieran has spent the last 10 years creating characters for the toy and game industries. He is active in the local Seattle indie game community and relishes the opportunity to collaborate with others who share his passion for creating handcrafted games with a loving attention to detail. Some day, with a little luck, he may even finish reading the Wheel of Time series.
Justen Lazzaro
Justen is a newcomer to the games industry with a background in information technology, art, guitar building, and music composition. He is a lifelong gamer who always had faith that someday people would strap Virtual Boys to their faces.
Jorge Norgaard
Jorge is a 3D Artist and Concept Designer with 10+ years working in the entertainment industry. His professional experience extends from working in film, advertising, games, collectibles and miniatures. He is also a passionate traditional sculptor and teacher. He loves hiking, surfing and spending time outdoors with his family and two Frenchies.
Amy Pantea
Amy has been connecting players to games with over a decade of learnings in content creation, marketing and brand advocacy. You can find her racking up hours in the latest farm sim, motocamping in the mountains, or deep in the wiki of her latest hyperfixation.
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Quill
She’s always dreamed of greatness and now it’s finally time for her to embark on an epic journey. If Quill’s capabilities are doubted by anyone, it’s certainly not her. She may be small, but her uncle Argus taught her well.
Paul Reynolds
Hailing from the Planet Illinois. At a young age Paul had a knack for breaking stuff. Over a decade ago he made his way out to the North Western Quadrant of the U.S. where he was able to channel this aptitude for destruction into the Gaming Industry. Multiple Projects and Platforms later, this Harbinger of Chaos continues to break and share his knowledge with others to break some really, really cool games… Also, he enjoys Dogs, Tacos, and Foosball.
Cyril Saint Girons
Cyril has been an engineer in games and creative tools for more than 15 years. He loves the intersection of creative and technical work and the collaboration it garners. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family, jamming and listening to music, playing all the games, and building all the things.
Barton Slade
Barton has been crafting games since he was a kid, painstakingly building short and funny games on RPG Maker. Professionally, he has been a designer for over ten years, working on titles like Grand Theft Auto V and Destiny 2. He has a broad design background building systems, levels, missions, and multiplayer modes and experiences. He is a huge fan of grand strategy, open world, and tactical RPGs.
Marisa Smailes
Marisa started her Game Dev journey 14 years ago as a Community Moderator where players always came first. And players are still at the heart of her quest to make the industry welcoming to gamers from all backgrounds. While she never really stops thinking about how games work or making the best experiences possible, she does sometimes take time out to help her husband with their next home improvement project, take the pups to the dog park, or work on her historical fiction novel.
David Solomon
David is relatively new to the games industry but has been passionate about games his whole life. He loves games that blend great story with fun and engaging mechanics. His background is in game AI. When not making or playing games he enjoys spending time with his family, woodworking and cooking.
Shauna Sperry
After a 10+ year career in HR in the games industry, Shauna made the exciting leap to pursue writing full-time. As a member of the Polyarc story team, she co-wrote both Moss and Moss: Book II. She also loves comedy and rom-coms and writing screenplays in that genre.
Josh Stiksma
Josh has been a professional designer for nearly a decade. His passion for fun and love of memorable experiences has guided his approach to game development. He is a fan of hockey and board games.
Jason Tranchida
Jason has been working as an engineer on games & game platforms for over 20 years. His specialties include graphics, performance optimization, and game tools, along with some console operating system experience. Outside of work he loves to build all kinds of things, especially if they contain LEDs and blink. You can find him at Burning Man most years.
Matheus Vilano
Matheus is a game audio specialist obsessed with development tools. He has helped shape unforgettable experiences like Until Dawn and Baldur’s Gate 3. After hours, you will find him crafting jazzy LoFi beats, teaching game dev, or streaming with friends.
Brendan Walker
Brendan has been an engineer for more than a decade in the games industry. During that time he's worked on AI systems for console games, back-end MMO server architecture, and smaller indie titles. In his spare time he enjoys filling his home office with half finished hardware projects.
Tyler Walters
Tyler has been working on games and real-time entertainment for 10 years. During that time, he has grown to love the open-ended creativity of technical art, including all of the challenges involved with creating beautifully rendered worlds.
Guy Whitmore
Guy has been crafting sounds and music into games for thirty years, providing audio direction across a plethora of genres and platforms. An avid distance runner, you may find him on the wooded trails of the great Northwest, if he's not playing guitar.
Emma Zhao
Emma is new to the games industry. She enjoys solving problems that bridge multiple disciplines and loves carefully designed, story-rich games. Previously, she studied traditional animation in Tokyo and worked at a children’s makerspace.