Oliver Barbeau

Golemtek — Minneapolis, MN

• Building a campaign management SaaS for tabletop RPG game masters — world-building, session running, and real-time collaboration across 12 entity types (NPCs, locations, factions, plot threads, encounters, lore, and more).
• Designed a 49-model PostgreSQL schema with full-text search, @mention tracking with bidirectional linking, and a two-axis visibility system with per-player exceptions.
• Real-time collaborative editing via Liveblocks WebSockets with live presence and field-level locking; interactive maps (Leaflet) and knowledge graphs (React Flow).
• Full-stack with Next.js 16, TypeScript, tRPC 11, Prisma 7, and Redis; 8,600+ tests across 335 suites; CI/CD via GitHub Actions with lint, type-check, and coverage gates.

Salesforce (via Aditi Consulting) — Remote

• Shipped an interactive learning simulation on Forio's Epicenter platform, used by 10,000+ global sales professionals.
• Sole developer on the Global Enablement Innovation Team; built gameful experiences in JavaScript and React from requirements through delivery.

Centro Restaurant Group — Minneapolis, MN

• Sole IT and systems manager across 4 restaurant locations; built data analytics pipelines for menu pricing optimization.
• Automated reporting workflows and managed POS system integrations.

Oro by Nixta — Minneapolis, MN

• Made the finalists list for award of Best New Restaurant by The James Beard Foundation in 2024.
• Featured in NYT's 50 Best Restaurants (US) 2024.
• MSP Mag 50 best Twin Cities restaurants 5 years in a row

Red Stag Supper Club, Tiny Diner - Placemaker Hospitality — Minneapolis, MN

• Server at James Beard Award semifinalist restaurants.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, College of Science and Engineering

Google

• Research paper proposing a novel dual-heuristic approach to the NP-hard personnel tour scheduling problem.
• Separated resource and time slot heuristics for customizable priority tuning; mutual recursive graph search with depth-limit pruning.

• Independently built and deployed a full-stack daily word puzzle game with user accounts (Clerk) and server-validated game history.
• Type-safe API via tRPC; relational data layer with Prisma and MySQL.

• Built a solver for the NYT Wordle puzzle using a custom word-frequency ranking algorithm.
• Outperforms average human solve rate with a higher win percentage and lower average guesses.

• Led a 4-person team through requirements elicitation, specification, and weekly SCRUM sprints.
• Generates Parsons problems from source code for upload to standard Learning Management Systems.

• Led a 3-person team building a tabbed browser using fork/exec, IPC, and shared memory.
• Implemented process isolation per tab with low-level POSIX system calls.