WILL BOWMAN
CLASS: ENGINEERING LEAD · FOUNDER · GAME MAKER
25 years taking products from napkin sketch to production. First engineering hire at two startups, CTO, three-time founder. By day I build PageHub. After hours I build games you can play in a browser tab.
SELECT GAME
Things I build after hours, because making stuff people play is the best kind of engineering.
SPROCKET & STOCK
Run a shop with a crew of robots. You're the only human in it. Build conveyors, cook, stock and serve, then send a friend the link to co-op.
BROWSER · CO-OP · 1–2P
▶ PLAY NOWSKID ROAD
A top-down crime sandbox inside the DTLA freeway ring, in the spirit of the original overhead GTA. Traffic, crowds and cops crash into each other, and you try to survive it.
GODOT 4 · 2D SIM, 3D VIEW
IN DEVELOPMENTSNOWBALL FIGHT!
Free online multiplayer snowball fights with your friends. Throw, dodge, build a fort, repeat.
ONLINE · MULTIPLAYER
COMING BACK ONLINECAREER MODE · HIGH SCORES
First engineering hire, team builder, CTO and founder. Every level from PHP 4 to AI agents.
- 2023–
PAGEHUB · FOUNDER
A pro-code visual site builder with an open SDK and an MCP server, so AI agents can build production sites alongside people. - 2022–25
KICKBACK · CTO
Came back to run engineering for the app I first built there: the mobile apps, the API, and the team. - 2022
PADVEST · DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
First engineering hire. Built the team, the process and CI/CD on AWS, and shipped the MVP that helped secure funding. - 2019–21
BRAINBASE · DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
First engineering hire. Grew the team from 2 to 12+ engineers, shipped two products on serverless Node and Angular, and turned around a legacy Laravel app. - 2018
AD.CAPITAL · DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Serverless Node API for a white-label ride-share app. Led code review for a remote team in Lagos. - 2016–18
KICKBACK · LEAD DEVELOPER
Built the Laravel API and Angular admin behind a high-volume iOS and Android app, and hired the team of 3–4 that ran it. - BONUS
NINJACUT · FOUNDER
AI video automation: long recordings in, publish-ready cuts out. - 2004–
GAMECP · FOUNDER
Game server control panel: a PHP and MySQL web app driving C# and C++ agents on Windows and Linux. Support, billing, security and ops, all of it. - 1999–16
THE EARLY LEVELS
Hirons, AHREF Interactive, Yoshirt, Rhythmik Care (IoT patient tracking over Bluetooth) and Equate Media.
POWER-UPS
TypeScript · Next.js · React · Node · Serverless on AWS and Vercel · MongoDB · Laravel · AI agents and MCP · Godot · Hiring and team building · Roadmaps
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Hiring a head of engineering, a principal engineer, or looking for a technical co-founder? Tell me what you're building.
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