Credits

Game Control

Benjamin Juang

Ben is a full-stack software engineer at Block. He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from UIUC in 2008 and has been returning to UIUC annually to run PuzzleBang. Other side hobbies include consuming fantasy / science fiction, napping, and trying to teach his two cats new tricks. He can be found on most social media under his name @benjuang. And there's a tiny bit of public code on github account.

David Tan

David (also known as Dan) aka QA ninja. Running around, breaking all the things he touches, while still writing his legion of automation bots to do his work for him so he can play with his 3D printer. In his spare time he goes to hackathons because testers are coders also!!

Matthew Augustyn

Matthew (Aug) is a UIUC Computer Science Alum, graduated in 2022. In his free time he likes to do all sorts of stuff, but mainly design and develop games (both digital and physical!). One of these days he'll manage to ship a full game and you'll be able to see your reflection twice over in the polish.

Max Kopinsky

Max is a UIUC Alum currently studying for his MSc at McGill University in Montréal. Max has accepted a full-time teaching position at McGill with a focus on systems courses. He'll gladly spend 2 days automating a 15-minute task, and feel productive when he's done. Outside of programming, he enjoys casual video games, speedrunning, board games, billiards, and linguistics. Find him on Discord and say hi!

Designer and Artist

Sue Tan

Sue runs around fixing the things that David (Dan) breaks, and makes stuff from various materials such as code, paper, fabric, and yarn. She is a software engineer with an industrial design degree, also from the same alma mater as Ben and David.

2024 Sponsor: PEAK6

Headquartered in the historic Chicago Board of Trade, PEAK6 Capital Management is a proprietary options trading firm that has been defining the industry for more than 25 years. While many firms have come and gone, PEAK6 Capital Management has consistently delivered liquidity to the options market. We thrive due to our firm’s special blend of financial acumen, ability to manage risk, and cutting-edge technology. PEAK6 Capital Management was brought to life through insatiable curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, and the desire to win. We offer incredible opportunities for smart, passionate team players to solve complex problems and take calculated risks. We were among the first firms to develop sophisticated proprietary technology in our trading business. Today, we continue to leverage our technical ingenuity and operational excellence across several investment areas, spanning early-to-mid stage growth capital, operational control, trading, and eSports. Throughout the years, we've built and operated several financial technology firms and we continue to evolve.

PuzzleBang would like to additionally thank

A heartfelt thanks to everyone that helps run (/ manage / organize / herd) the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery at the University of Illinois (ACM@UIUC). Without them, we wouldn't have the Reflections | Projections conference, and without the conference, there wouldn't be a PuzzleBang.

Last, but not least...

All of you! PuzzleBang would be meaningless without all of you lovely people who try to solve our puzzles. We love each and every one of you and want you to have fun, so please, let us know if you think you're not being challenged enough! (Or you're being challenged too much!)

Technology

This Ruby on Rails site is hosted on Linode.