My name is Glen Rhodes. I’m one of those people who just does a lot of different things — and I’ve been doing them for a long time.
I started programming when I was 10 years old, on an IBM PC my parents brought home on Halloween night, 1985. I never went trick-or-treating that year. I’ve been hooked ever since.
Over the past 27+ years, my career has taken me through console game development (my first professional gig was building games for the Sony PlayStation at age 19), the Flash era (where I created a viral recreation of Wolfenstein 3D and led projects for clients like BBC, Nike, Microsoft, and Toyota), mobile gaming (co-founding Tiny Moosh Games, with a Top 25 hit in multiple countries), virtual reality (building location-based VR experiences for Zero Latency and creating a lifelike VR avatar of Dominic Monaghan), and AAA game development (serving as Technical Director on a major sci-fi franchise title, managing a team of 15).
These days, I’m deep in the world of AI and machine learning. I’ve built over 50 projects leveraging technologies like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Sora, ChromaDB, and FAISS — spanning AI video generation, voice assistants, automated content creation, SaaS platforms, and creative tools. I work primarily in Python, Flask, React, TypeScript, and Node.js, and I genuinely believe we’re living through the most exciting era in software development.
I’m also an author. I’ve written or co-written over 10 books on game development and interactive media, spoken at international conferences like FITC, FlashForward, and FlashOnTheBeach, and have a new book coming in 2026 on AI-assisted software development.
On the creative side, I’m an orchestral composer. I spent six years composing music for The Oprah Winfrey Show, and I’m registered with both ASCAP and SOCAN. Music has been part of my life since I was four or five — piano, composition, production, performance. Code and music aren’t as different as people think.
I’m a proud father of a son and a daughter.
That’s an absurdly brief summary of my life so far, and I still like to believe none of it defines who I am. Those are all just labels. What drives me is simpler than any of it — I love building things, and I’m not done yet.