Hi, I'm Michael Goddard

Hi! I'm Mike, a software engineer working at Fictioneers based in Leeds, UK. In June 2014 I graduated from the University of Sheffield with a 1st in Software Engineering (MEng). Previously I have worked as a software engineer at Infinity Works (Leeds), Cambridge Consultants and Fluidic Analytics (both in Cambridge, UK). I enjoy working alongside other engineers from all sorts of backgrounds and disciplines.

Outside of computing my interests range from music and hiking to 3D printing and board games.

I've built this small site to document some of the things I'm working/have worked on.

Projects

Ziggurat

2021-04-28

Ziggurat was a team entry to the Infinity Works 2021 game jam, a light hearted competition between employees of the Leeds based consultancy to produce a game under the theme "Sacrifices must be made". ...

Janky Werewolf

2020-12-22

Janky Werewolf is a way to play the "secret roles" game Werewolf, online with friends. I made some contributions to the front-end (typescript with React) but primarily I wrote the backend game logic a ...

Falken

2020-10-28

Falken is a lightweight serverless application that can serve as a scoreboard for wargames exercises for DevOps (or other) teams. ...

Connect4eth

2017-06-11

A version of the game Connect4 implemented on the Ethereum blockchain. This project makes use of the Truffle javascript framework alongside the Solidity programming language for smart contracts. ...

Conways Game of Life

2016-11-10

I originally implemented Conways game of life in C# in order to explore the multithreading options available and evaluate the execution speed up that could be achieved. ...

Evolutionary Optimisation of Agent Based Models

2014-05-10

During the third year of my degree course we were required to undertake a substantial piece of individual, original research. The project I completed for this requirement was my self-proposed disserta ...

Virtual Shooting Systems

2014-01-10

As part of a multidisciplinary group of engineers from the University of Sheffield I entered the Thales student competition to produce a project in some way related to their business using a provided ...

Equinox Challenge App

2014-02-01

Myself and fellow computer scientist, Aaron Thompson, decided to build an app for the annual Equinox Challenge scouting orienteering event. ...

Barry White Dimmable Light

2014-07-07

My first foray into Arduino development was to produce a musical lamp using several LEDs and a potentiometer connected to an Arduino Uno. ...

Light-bikes iOS

2013-11-13

As part of the fourth year "Software Development for Mobile Devices" module we were asked to create a simplified clone of the classic "Light Cycles" arcade game for the iOS platform. The game takes pl ...