Bingo & Slots at Playtech

Nearly ten years on Playtech's online bingo platform, which serves twenty-plus branded clients from one codebase. I joined as a Flash and mobile developer while the client was still ActionScript, helped migrate it to plain JavaScript and HTML5, and spent the rest of my time there building features that had to work across every brand, every device and several purchaser designs at once.

The projects I'd pick out: Spirit Twister, an on-demand bingo variant where I built an entirely new ticket purchaser from scratch so it could be opened anywhere in the client instead of only inside a room; a free-tickets system threaded through a legacy purchaser with multiple price points and stake rules; and Housey, a 52-ball bingo variant played with playing cards instead of tickets. I also built several slot game engines, mentored newer developers, and for a couple of years was the person shipping the bi-monthly enhancement releases solo.

• Highlights

  Spirit Twister on-demand bingo

  Free ticket purchasing system

  Housey 52-ball bingo

  ActionScript to JavaScript migration

• My role

  Front-end developer, later senior on the bingo client.