Code Benders

Team Alumni –

Rhett Anderson is currently the Director of Development at Disney’s Playdom. His 30 years of programming started with him winning first, second, and fourth places with entries to a county-wide high school programming contest.

Since then he’s been a computer magazine writer and editor, a technical book author, a videogame senior designer and senior software engineer, with credits on over a dozen products from Atari, Sega, Sony, Sierra, and others. He’s also a respected JavaScript blogger and a top StackOverflow contributer.

His specialties are front-end HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, and graphics. He enjoys problem-solving, algorithms, data-mining, game programming, financial applications, design, technical documentation, dsp programming, and brainstorming.

Platforms have included the web, Windows, Mac, iPhone, Sega Genesis, Sony PS2, Sony PSP, XBox, GameCube, Palm, and Amiga.
Among his other accomplishments, he invented an Amiga graphics mode that was widely used on Compuserve and other online services, and has written several 3D engines from engines from the ground up. His image compression and alpha channel image format code was used in dozens of products. He’s written many AI systems and physics for billiards and pinball games.