Experience
Twenty years of shipping.
Founder and lead engineer at Digital Den since 2023. Before that, a combat platform that reached 30,000 members, seven years of freelance work, and gaming communities that grew past 40,000. The roles are below, followed by the full timeline back to 1999.
- Years building and running software
- 20+
- Members in the largest community I led
- 40k+
- Staff led over iSe.GG’s history
- 396
- GitHub contributions in the last year
- 6,696
01Roles
Where I’ve worked
Jan 2023 to Present
Founder and lead engineer
The studio I founded and run. I design, build and operate everything it ships, and handle the infrastructure, releases, documentation, support and the business side.
- Built and run four Discord bots in production: RostaBot, ForgeFeed, EvaluBot and VendFeed.
- Built dgden.com: free browser-based developer tools, in-depth guides, docs and a live status page.
- Designed the premium pipeline that verifies Discord app subscriptions and syncs them to community roles.
- Deliver client work through the studio: custom bots, FiveM and RedM development, Discord server systems, websites and Google Business profiles.
- Take each product from code to launch: its website, directory listings, documentation and support.
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Next.js
- discord.js
- Cloudflare Workers
- MySQL
2025 to Present
Founder and lead developer
A competitive combat format for FiveM, now in closed beta, and RedM, in alpha. It launched as Wasted RZ and became SKIRM in 2026.
- Server-authoritative combat: every shot is authorized on the server and health is read there, never trusted.
- Every match runs in a routing bucket of its own, and ranked play has a ping gate.
- Access to locked content, platform rentals and gang permissions are automated, down to Discord roles.
- The RedM build is written as separate resources for networking, identity, the connection queue and characters.
- Lua
- FiveM
- RedM
- MySQL
- NUI
Apr 2019 to Sep 2024
Founder
iSe.GG (Interactive Social Experience, LLC)
The first combat server on FiveM, which I founded and ran until it closed, along with the business it became: Interactive Social Experience, LLC, doing business as iSe.GG.
- Grew to more than 30,000 members, with servers across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
- Officially listed on Cfx.re, the FiveM platform, from February 2020.
- Led 396 staff members over its history, with a dedicated operations team.
- Designed custom platform maps, later released on Tebex through Digital Den.
- Lua
- FiveM
- CodeWalker
- MySQL
2016 to 2023
Freelance developer and consultant
Independent
After Vast Gamer closed I moved my focus to freelance development, client work and infrastructure consulting, the work that became Digital Den.
- Built Discord bots for clients and communities: moderation systems, ticket pipelines, match bots and multi-server architectures.
- Designed hundreds of production Discord servers: permissions, automod, integrations and onboarding.
- Built and ran FiveM roleplay servers, including Midnight Racers RP and Diamond Ridge RP.
- Ran hosting panel operations, documentation and production services for a client base.
- JavaScript
- Python
- PHP
- Lua
- Linux
- Windows Server
2009 to 2016
Founder
Vast Gamer
An international multi-gaming community that peaked at more than 40,000 members across dozens of games.
- Took in Tactical Carnage under a new, vendor-friendly brand.
- Sponsored competitive teams and ran tournaments while the casual side grew.
- Ran the community’s operations, web tools and game servers.
- PHP
- Game servers
- Linux
- Windows Server
2007 to 2011
Founder
Tactical Carnage
Started as a top 10 Horde guild on World of Warcraft’s Stormrage and grew to roughly 10,000 members across more than 20 games.
- Sponsored competitive Counter-Strike and StarCraft teams, and ran paid StarCraft tournaments.
- Community operations
- Game servers
02Timeline
From CS Beta to Digital Den
Everything, newest first. Filter to the engineering, the communities, or the gaming and streaming that came along the way.
2026
Four bots in production (Engineering)
EvaluBot and VendFeed join RostaBot and ForgeFeed, with premium plans sold through Discord and a Worker that keeps subscriptions and roles in sync.
2026
Wasted RZ becomes SKIRM (Community)
Live at playskirm.com, with FiveM in closed beta and RedM in alpha.
2025
RostaBot launches (Engineering)
Role Tracker’s idea, rebuilt from scratch on Node.js. It is now my most widely used bot.
2025
Wasted RZ starts (Community)
A fresh take on the combat server, rebuilt from nothing rather than restored from iSe.GG’s code.
Sep 2024
iSe.GG closes (Community)
After five and a half years the servers came down, with no successor planned at the time.
2024
Kick verified (Off the clock)
A verified creator account, from the years I streamed. Retired since.
2023
iSe.GG maps on Tebex (Engineering)
The platform maps go on sale through the Digital Den store.
Jan 2023
Digital Den founded (Engineering)
The studio that every client engagement, bot and tool runs through, registered as DGDEN LLC.
2022
iSe.GG goes global (Community)
Dedicated servers for Europe, Australia and Asia, and a full rewrite of the platform.
2021
AI in production (Engineering)
Integrating large language models into real products: prompts, embeddings, retrieval and orchestration.
2020
Discord bots at scale (Engineering)
Moderation systems, ticket pipelines, match bots and multi-server architectures, with discord.js and discord.py as core tools.
Feb 2020
Official Cfx.re listing (Community)
iSe.GG is listed on the FiveM platform’s Server Bazaar.
Apr 2019
iSe.GG founded (Community)
The first combat server on FiveM, built on floating platforms in place of the GTA V map.
2016
Freelance, full focus (Engineering)
Vast Gamer wraps up and client work, bots and infrastructure consulting take over.
Mid 2010s
Twitch Partner (Off the clock)
Partnered well before streaming was a mainstream career, and retired from it years ago.
2012
CS:GO (Off the clock)
The competitive run carries on into CS:GO, and later CS2, before I retired from competitive play.
Early 2010s
JustinTV (Off the clock)
Streaming when live broadcasting to a public audience was brand new.
2009
Vast Gamer founded (Community)
An international multi-gaming community that grew past 40,000 members.
2008
Virtual worlds (Engineering)
Scripting in LSL and building in Second Life, ActiveWorlds, There and OpenSimulator.
2007
Tactical Carnage founded (Community)
From a top 10 World of Warcraft guild to roughly 10,000 members across 20+ games.
Mid 2000s
Game server hosting (Engineering)
Running dedicated game servers: hosting stacks, control panels, mods and keeping it all stable under load.
2001 to 2006
CAL and OGL (Off the clock)
Competed through the CAL ladder from Open to Invite, played OGL seasons and filled in for CPL matches. Entry fragger.
Early 2000s
First websites, first community (Engineering)
HTML tables, CSS hacks and PHP, and Legendary Supreme Force on Battle.net.
1999
Counter-Strike Beta (Off the clock)
Off a CD-ROM, before most people had heard of it.
The tools behind all of it
The stack I ship with today, what I’ve worked with, and what I’ve retired.