Brandon W. Rodriguez · Long Island City, NY
For games, for classrooms, and for software. Three different rooms — one discipline: understand what motivates a person, then build the loop that keeps them coming back.
Now · Since Feb 2026
Platform architecture and application design for Referral Rewards by CardLinks, an NFC-based referral attribution platform for local service businesses. A customer taps a referral card on a friend's phone; the friend gets a trackable first-visit offer; the business sees the whole chain — referral, claim, visit, reward — without anyone installing an app.
It is a reward loop with real stakes: the design has to make referring feel effortless for the customer and provable for the business. That is the same problem a game economy or a token board solves — attribution, timing, and a payoff worth repeating.
Platform architecture Application design Referral attribution NFC / QR
referralrewards.app →The classroom · 2020 – present
In New York City I work as a Registered Behavior Technician with Comprehensive Behavior Supports, following classroom years at the Manhattan Children's Center and Academics West — merging Applied Behavior Analysis with STEM- and game-based learning for neurodivergent students.
The games · Full Sail & CelleC, 2016 – 2018
Built in C++, C#, Unity, and Unreal Engine 4 — as engineer, designer, and eventually studio lead.
A historical 2.5-D side-scroller following Grace and Elijah as they escape slavery through the Underground Railroad. Premiered at Orlando iX with CelleC Games, where Brandon moved from engineering intern to Lead Engineer, then Lead Designer of the studio.
An on-rails slingshot shooter across past, present, and future — the player's smartphone is both the slingshot and the window into the world, chasing the top spot on the high-score board.
A murder-mystery point-and-click visual novel that teaches computer-science concepts through puzzles: Grace and Ada investigate the death of the first android aboard the Noah Sphere, a deep-space lab.
Background
The neurobiology coursework is not a footnote — it is where the interest in how brains learn started, a decade before ABA made it a profession.
Open to conversations about software, game-based learning, and reward-system design.
brandonwr727@gmail.com LinkedIn Referral Rewards by CardLinks