Mike Bell, Computer Scientist, Game Developer, Security Researcher

www.evildojo.com | linkedin.com/in/darkmage | bugcrowd.com/darkmagex6 | github.com/mikedesu | evildojo.itch.io

Personal Achievements

Programming For 28 Years (since 1997)
Role-playing Game In Development, Demo Available: https://evildojo.itch.io/projectrpg
Hacking & Security Research: Bugcrowd Rank 1802th as of 06/19/2025
Thousands of hours tutoring hundreds of students since 2002
Created a website that held front page of reddit for a week in 2010 and was acknowledged by wikileaks
- Over 1,000,000 visitors
Created popular StepMania charts played by tens of thousands of players and seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers
- One Winged Angel Advent Children Version: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stepmania+darkmage+one+winged+angel
- https://search.stepmaniaonline.net/pack/id/Archmage%20and%20Dark0wl%20Hammer%20of%20Thor%20UltraHyperMegaPack
- https://etternaonline.com/packs/3330

Experience:

2017-present: Independent Contractor, Tutor Varsity Tutors, Internet
- Tutoring: Computer Science: Programming: C/C++, Java, Python, x86/64, Javascript, HTML5, PHP, Django, Flask, Shopify, ChatGPT
2020: Technology Consultant Bunsow de Mory LLP
- Source code review in technology-related legal cases: C/C++, Python, Java, protobuf
2015-2016: Security Consultant Kratos SecureInfo, San Antonio, Texas
- Penetration testing of web & mobile apps: Python, Excel, CSV, XML, Nessus, Burp Suite, Kali Linux, Metasploit
2014-2015: iOS Developer iMobile3 LLC., Jacksonville, Florida
- Corporate Native iOS software development: PHP, Objective-C, Xcode, Apple Foundation, Cocoa, UIKit
2011-2013: Game Developer Gifting 365 LLC., San Antonio, Texas
- iOS Game Client & Server: PHP, Objective-C, Xcode, Cocos2d, MySQL
2010-2011: Web Developer myweb Refresh, Fernandina Beach, Florida
- Co-developed 16+ web sites for local businesses: Javascript, HTML5, CSS, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Wordpress, PHP
2007-2009: Tutor & Research Assistant UTSA Computer Science Dept., San Antonio, Texas
- Homework grading, research, Lab instruction Java with 20-30 students of all ages: Java, C, Perl, FORTRAN, Performance Testing & Tuning
2008: Treasurer, Website Admin: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) UTSA Chapter
- Website maintenance: HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, Joomla
2006: Computer Science Mentor Prefreshman Engineering Program, San Antonio, Texas.
- Taught classes of middle school kids how to write Java programs.
2002: Computer Science Mentor Bethel High School, Hampton, Virginia.
- Taught classes of elementary school kids how to write HTML websites.

Education:

2004-2008,2011: Bachelors (BS) of Computer Science University of Texas San Antonio
- Dean’s List, Fall 2007
- Independent Study: Compiler Research, 2008

Free Software I’m Writing That I Like

An RPG game engine written using C and raylib: raylib-rpg-c: https://github.com/mikedesu/raylib-rpg-c
An ascii art editor written in C and ncurses: asciishade: https://github.com/mikedesu/asciishade
A tool for generating filter flags for use with the Project Discovery tool, ffuf: ffuflags: https://pypi.org/project/ffuflags/
A tool for generating combinations of query-parameters from a given URL as a replacement for qsreplace: queryswap: https://pypi.org/project/queryswap/