Mike Hall
Principal Software Engineer
- Location Chicago, IL
- Email mike@just3ws.com
- Phone (847) 877-3825
- Web just3ws.com
- LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/just3ws/
- GitHub github.com/just3ws
Role & Career Context
Detailed experience breakdown, architectural achievements, and related archival artifacts.
Principal Architect
Designing and building a real-time tactical game platform as a current hands-on laboratory for deterministic systems, product architecture, and controlled AI-assisted engineering.
- Designed a deterministic engine with replayable action logs and server-authoritative state transitions, making complex outcomes reproducible and independently verifiable.
- Built replay validation, adversarial coverage, and CI verification gates so state transitions can be checked across the complete lifecycle.
- Uses controlled agent workflows with bounded tasks, acceptance criteria, automated checks, and human-reviewed outputs rather than treating model output as authority.
Skills: TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, API Design, Distributed Systems, Deterministic Simulation, CI/CD, System Verification, AI-Augmented Development