Bare metal
Owned hardware, not rented cloud. Node in Docker, pulled off someone else’s data center so I control the cost, the latency, and the uptime. The stack ends where the silicon does.
Personnel File // 001
TACYARG
Jacob Dent
Software Architect
Active since 2014
I build distributed, bare-metal systems and the products that run on them. Right now that’s Redpkt and Chips.gg. Before them, a decade of shipping under names you have probably used and never connected to me. Allegedly an internet supervillain. The uptime is real either way.
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Arsenal
Owned infrastructure
Distributed control
Multi-region systems
A NATS.io message fabric over replicated RethinkDB and Redis, with forked Node workers. A node can die, a whole region can drop, and the ledger still balances. That is the entire point.
Front operations
Shipped products
React and Vue on top of provably-fair hash chains. Outcomes you can verify yourself, not trust. Real-time wallets, ledgers, asset systems, and the operator tooling that runs them.
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Operations & holdings
REDPKT, LLC
Founder. Software services and consulting. The platform layer underneath everything below.
Chips.gg
Flagship. Lead developer and operator. A SaaS platform for real-time virtual-asset management. Platform since 2016, public crypto casino and sportsbook since ~2020.
Provable.io
Builder. A free, open-source API for provably-fair random floats and integers. Every outcome ships with a server hash you can verify yourself.
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Service record
Engagements since 2014. Full-stack work across real-time virtual-asset, esports, and crypto platforms.
2019
Vunbox.com
Open-source realtime event-streaming & analytics for the WAX.io market. NodeJS backend, React time-series dashboards. 7.5M+ events processed since launch.
2019
Fundingrate.io
Built a platform that turns TradingView webhook alerts into auditable, actionable trade strategies. Personal trading infrastructure.
2018–19
VGODogg.com
Backend stability & QOL on the Chips.gg platform; built a React then a Vue frontend. 50k+ case openings, 100k+ rewarded to users.
2018
K8 Entertainment · Manila
Designed and built a multi-tenant eSports match-betting platform; wrote documentation and diagrams, trained the in-house team for handoff.
2017–18
Pubgzone.com
Price-tracking algorithm for PUBG virtual assets. Managed large datasets, generated analytics, shipped a documented public API, deployed via Docker.
2017–18
CSGOFiesta.com
Provably-fair hash-chain service on the Chips.gg API. Verifiable, immutable outcomes, plus real-time leaderboards and frontend work.
2016–18
Skins.Direct
Built an inventory-management system and marketplace with an easy item transfer & management API.
2016
Hyperdraft.com
eSports match-wager platform with secure auth and Bitcoin / virtual-asset payments. Mentored junior devs; introduced Trello and Slack to the process.
2014–16
CSGOBIG
Led back-end software architecture on the Steam platform: realtime wagering games and secure virtual-asset trading. RethinkDB, Redis, Node forked processes.
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Manifesto
Most people rent their infrastructure and call it architecture. I own mine, down to the metal. Control, cost, and latency are not things you get to abstract away and pretend you solved. The stack ends where the silicon does, and nothing that matters runs on a machine I do not control.
I build for failure, because failure is the default. Nodes die, regions go dark, networks lie. The ledger still has to balance when they do. Provably-fair is not a marketing word here. It means the math is public and you can check the outcome yourself. That is the only honest way to move money in real time. You make trust unnecessary.
A decade of shipping under a dozen names taught me one rule. When the system disagrees with the design, the system is right. Find the smallest test that isolates the fault, fix it at the lowest correct layer, and never let a flattering average hide a real bug. The supervillain thing is a joke. The uptime is not.
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Establish contact
Reach me directly, or check any of the handles below. They all resolve to the same person.