simulationcraft/simc
Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
13 Months active
Languages Used
C++PythonTexttext
Technical Skills
Build SystemsBuild UpdatesConfigurationData ManagementGame Data ManagementGame Data Updates
Dave Hendler
PROFILE
Dave Hendler
Sollaires worked on the simulationcraft/simc repository, delivering over 60 features and multiple bug fixes focused on game data management, spell balancing, and build synchronization for World of Warcraft simulations. Using C++ and Python, Sollaires engineered robust data pipelines that ensured live and test environments remained in sync, reducing data drift and improving simulation accuracy. Their work included implementing versioned data updates, refining data structures, and automating hotfix integration, which streamlined patch cycles and enhanced release reliability. By addressing schema corrections and optimizing data extraction, Sollaires enabled faster QA validation and more trustworthy analytics, demonstrating strong backend development and configuration management skills.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
91%Features
Repository Contributions
213Total
Bugs
6
Commits
213
Features
60
Lines of code
965,359
Activity Months13
Your Network
36 peopleWork History
October 2025
11 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Month: 2025-10 – concise performance-focused summary for simulationcraft/simc. Key features delivered: - Live spell data balance updates across builds (Build 63660 to 63906), adjusting base values and PvP coefficients, and adding new effects for select classes; included hotfixes and tooltip corrections to ensure in-game descriptions match effects. - Spell data integrity and format cleanup: comprehensive fixes to SpellInterrupts data structure, including updating format, correct version targeting (11.2.5), resolving invalid JSON, removing unused fields, reverting to appropriate unsigned representation, and aligning SpellCategory format with live. Major bugs fixed: - Stabilized data ingestion and serialization for SpellInterrupts, eliminating invalid JSON paths and improper field types to prevent build-and-run errors across multiple platforms. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased data reliability across builds, enabling accurate simulations and smoother patch cycles; reduced support effort by preventing mismatches between in-game effects and tooltips; strengthened compatibility with live and patch-specific data. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Data structure migration and JSON handling, version-targeted formatting, per-build data propagation, commit-based traceability, and cross-team collaboration with live patch workflows. Business value: - More trustworthy simulations lead to better balance decisions and faster iteration cycles for developers and players relying on simc for gear and talent optimization.
11 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Month: 2025-10 – concise performance-focused summary for simulationcraft/simc. Key features delivered: - Live spell data balance updates across builds (Build 63660 to 63906), adjusting base values and PvP coefficients, and adding new effects for select classes; included hotfixes and tooltip corrections to ensure in-game descriptions match effects. - Spell data integrity and format cleanup: comprehensive fixes to SpellInterrupts data structure, including updating format, correct version targeting (11.2.5), resolving invalid JSON, removing unused fields, reverting to appropriate unsigned representation, and aligning SpellCategory format with live. Major bugs fixed: - Stabilized data ingestion and serialization for SpellInterrupts, eliminating invalid JSON paths and improper field types to prevent build-and-run errors across multiple platforms. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased data reliability across builds, enabling accurate simulations and smoother patch cycles; reduced support effort by preventing mismatches between in-game effects and tooltips; strengthened compatibility with live and patch-specific data. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Data structure migration and JSON handling, version-targeted formatting, per-build data propagation, commit-based traceability, and cross-team collaboration with live patch workflows. Business value: - More trustworthy simulations lead to better balance decisions and faster iteration cycles for developers and players relying on simc for gear and talent optimization.
October 2025
September 2025
10 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025In September 2025, the SIMC team delivered critical data and quality improvements for simulationcraft/simc, focusing on cross-build data integrity and bug fixes that underpin reliable balance decisions and patch readiness. Key efforts included Spell Data Refresh and Build Synchronization across builds 62940, 62958, 63003, 63163, 63092, 63305, and 63286, ensuring coefficients, base values, labels, version numbers, hotfix dates, PvP coefficients, and related files remain aligned. A concurrent SpellCategories data schema fix corrected fields in the dbc module to prevent misrepresentation and processing errors. These changes improved cross-build consistency, reduced data drift, and enhanced the reliability of simulations used by developers and QA for balance validation and patch planning. The work leveraged live and test updates to validate changes before deployment, reinforcing release readiness.
September 2025
10 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025In September 2025, the SIMC team delivered critical data and quality improvements for simulationcraft/simc, focusing on cross-build data integrity and bug fixes that underpin reliable balance decisions and patch readiness. Key efforts included Spell Data Refresh and Build Synchronization across builds 62940, 62958, 63003, 63163, 63092, 63305, and 63286, ensuring coefficients, base values, labels, version numbers, hotfix dates, PvP coefficients, and related files remain aligned. A concurrent SpellCategories data schema fix corrected fields in the dbc module to prevent misrepresentation and processing errors. These changes improved cross-build consistency, reduced data drift, and enhanced the reliability of simulations used by developers and QA for balance validation and patch planning. The work leveraged live and test updates to validate changes before deployment, reinforcing release readiness.
August 2025
40 Commits • 11 Features
Aug 1, 2025Aug 2025: Delivered extensive game data updates and a hotfix reliability fix for simulationcraft/simc. Features and data updates included Build 62253 (test), Build 62417 (test/live), Build 62438 (live), Build 62493 (test/live) and batch 2 updates, plus live data maintenance for Builds 62610, 62706, 62748, and 62801. Major bugs fixed included hotfix field alignment to ensure correct hotfix application and JournalEncounterItem definitions updates. Impact: significantly reduced data drift between test and live streams, accelerated data readiness for releases, and improved accuracy of simulations. Skills demonstrated: meticulous multi-environment data management, release engineering, robust Git traceability, and cross-team collaboration.
40 Commits • 11 Features
Aug 1, 2025Aug 2025: Delivered extensive game data updates and a hotfix reliability fix for simulationcraft/simc. Features and data updates included Build 62253 (test), Build 62417 (test/live), Build 62438 (live), Build 62493 (test/live) and batch 2 updates, plus live data maintenance for Builds 62610, 62706, 62748, and 62801. Major bugs fixed included hotfix field alignment to ensure correct hotfix application and JournalEncounterItem definitions updates. Impact: significantly reduced data drift between test and live streams, accelerated data readiness for releases, and improved accuracy of simulations. Skills demonstrated: meticulous multi-environment data management, release engineering, robust Git traceability, and cross-team collaboration.
August 2025
July 2025
14 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc: Delivered a comprehensive spell data refresh and build synchronization across PTR/live builds 61609-62253, including Solar Wrath, Charged Crystal enhancements, updated coefficients, labels, and data dumps. Implemented internal data-model improvements to support hotfix reliability, notably a new CriteriaTree format and refined hotfix mapping for Achievements. Completed 14 commits across the repo (12 spell-data updates across multiple builds; 2 data-model/hotfix fixes), enabling faster patch cycles, improved simulation accuracy, and stronger cross-environment parity.
July 2025
14 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc: Delivered a comprehensive spell data refresh and build synchronization across PTR/live builds 61609-62253, including Solar Wrath, Charged Crystal enhancements, updated coefficients, labels, and data dumps. Implemented internal data-model improvements to support hotfix reliability, notably a new CriteriaTree format and refined hotfix mapping for Achievements. Completed 14 commits across the repo (12 spell-data updates across multiple builds; 2 data-model/hotfix fixes), enabling faster patch cycles, improved simulation accuracy, and stronger cross-environment parity.
June 2025
24 Commits • 7 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc focusing on data pipeline enhancements, build-activity consolidation, and compatibility improvements. Delivered consolidated live and test game data updates across multiple builds, added DBC format support for Achievements, implemented 11.2 DBC changes for compatibility, and refreshed spell data. These efforts improved data accuracy, reduced maintenance overhead, and accelerated release readiness across builds.
24 Commits • 7 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc focusing on data pipeline enhancements, build-activity consolidation, and compatibility improvements. Delivered consolidated live and test game data updates across multiple builds, added DBC format support for Achievements, implemented 11.2 DBC changes for compatibility, and refreshed spell data. These efforts improved data accuracy, reduced maintenance overhead, and accelerated release readiness across builds.
June 2025
May 2025
23 Commits • 5 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc. Focused on keeping game data up-to-date across live and test environments, enabling safer releases and faster QA cycles. Implemented multiple live and test data updates, and performed a targeted hotfix cleanup to stabilize future matrix-item hotfixes.
May 2025
23 Commits • 5 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc. Focused on keeping game data up-to-date across live and test environments, enabling safer releases and faster QA cycles. Implemented multiple live and test data updates, and performed a targeted hotfix cleanup to stabilize future matrix-item hotfixes.
April 2025
21 Commits • 12 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 (Month: 2025-04) was focused on delivering up-to-date game data across Live and Test environments for simulationcraft/simc. The month saw a coordinated run of 12 Build Game Data Update releases across multiple builds and environments, with updates deployed for 60037, 60008, 60179, 60189, 60228, 60253, 60257, 60428 (Test/Live variants), 60490, and 60568. Each release included multiple commits to ensure data parity with in-game releases, clear traceability to issues, and alignment with build-specific validation. No major bugs were reported as part of these updates; the work primarily improved data accuracy, consistency, and readiness for QA and live simulations. This cadence supports faster iteration on game balance, features, and performance testing, while strengthening cross-environment data governance.
21 Commits • 12 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 (Month: 2025-04) was focused on delivering up-to-date game data across Live and Test environments for simulationcraft/simc. The month saw a coordinated run of 12 Build Game Data Update releases across multiple builds and environments, with updates deployed for 60037, 60008, 60179, 60189, 60228, 60253, 60257, 60428 (Test/Live variants), 60490, and 60568. Each release included multiple commits to ensure data parity with in-game releases, clear traceability to issues, and alignment with build-specific validation. No major bugs were reported as part of these updates; the work primarily improved data accuracy, consistency, and readiness for QA and live simulations. This cadence supports faster iteration on game balance, features, and performance testing, while strengthening cross-environment data governance.
April 2025
March 2025
27 Commits • 11 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 focused on delivering up-to-date game data assets for simulationcraft/simc across live and test environments, enabling accurate, auditable results and faster validation cycles. Work encompassed updating live data for Build 59466, 59490, 59538, 59570, 59679, and 59888, plus test data for Build 59347, 59651, 59735, 59919. In total, 25 commits were applied across 10 distinct updates, with explicit, build-tagged messages ensuring traceability. Key outcomes: improved data accuracy, reduced data drift, enhanced environment parity between live and test, and stronger readiness for QA and release validation. This work underpins reliable analytics and faster feature validation in upcoming development cycles.
March 2025
27 Commits • 11 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 focused on delivering up-to-date game data assets for simulationcraft/simc across live and test environments, enabling accurate, auditable results and faster validation cycles. Work encompassed updating live data for Build 59466, 59490, 59538, 59570, 59679, and 59888, plus test data for Build 59347, 59651, 59735, 59919. In total, 25 commits were applied across 10 distinct updates, with explicit, build-tagged messages ensuring traceability. Key outcomes: improved data accuracy, reduced data drift, enhanced environment parity between live and test, and stronger readiness for QA and release validation. This work underpins reliable analytics and faster feature validation in upcoming development cycles.
February 2025
19 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: Implemented new spell data and ongoing data maintenance to improve simulation fidelity and decision support for players and developers. Delivered new spells Turbo-Actuation, Zap, Invisibility, and Rogue's Cashout!, along with a comprehensive data refresh and balance pass across builds 58911–59347 to keep coefficients and related game data aligned. The data updates, including both test and live builds, reduce inconsistencies and improve the reliability of optimization insights.
19 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: Implemented new spell data and ongoing data maintenance to improve simulation fidelity and decision support for players and developers. Delivered new spells Turbo-Actuation, Zap, Invisibility, and Rogue's Cashout!, along with a comprehensive data refresh and balance pass across builds 58911–59347 to keep coefficients and related game data aligned. The data updates, including both test and live builds, reduce inconsistencies and improve the reliability of optimization insights.
February 2025
January 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025Summary for 2025-01: SimulationCraft (simc) delivered a focused World of Warcraft spell data patch across builds 11.0.7.58238, 58221, and 58819. The work encompassed balancing updates, new spell effects, data structure refinements, and explicit build/versioning across data files, strengthening data quality and patch reliability.
January 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025Summary for 2025-01: SimulationCraft (simc) delivered a focused World of Warcraft spell data patch across builds 11.0.7.58238, 58221, and 58819. The work encompassed balancing updates, new spell effects, data structure refinements, and explicit build/versioning across data files, strengthening data quality and patch reliability.
December 2024
8 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc: Focused on delivering data-driven spell updates, coefficient tuning, and data alignment to improve simulation fidelity, balance validation, and patch readiness. Delivered features that reflect new spell data and integration points, with robust testing alignment to the latest build.
8 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for simulationcraft/simc: Focused on delivering data-driven spell updates, coefficient tuning, and data alignment to improve simulation fidelity, balance validation, and patch readiness. Delivered features that reflect new spell data and integration points, with robust testing alignment to the latest build.
December 2024
November 2024
9 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month: 2024-11 – Concise monthly summary focusing on key developer accomplishments for simulationcraft/simc. The month centered on delivering live-data driven balance updates for WoW 11.x, stabilizing the data pipelines, and strengthening data extraction reliability to support ongoing game balance and rapid release readiness. Key outcomes: - Data accuracy and balance: Implemented Global Spell Data Refresh and Balance Tuning to regenerate spell data, update coefficients and attributes across multiple spells, and apply hotfix/build-data updates reflecting live balance across WoW 11.x builds. This ensures the simulator mirrors live game balance and enables reliable testing for future patches. - Build-data and live updates: Executed and tracked data refreshes across Build 57388 to 57689, including multiple live data updates and dump regenerations to keep the data assets in sync with live game state. - Stability and performance improvements: Upgraded the database component to 11.0.7 (dbc library) with bug fixes and minor performance improvements to boost data access reliability and parsing efficiency in the simulation data pipeline. - Data extraction resilience: Enhanced the Data Extraction Tool (casc_extract) with CDN failover and retry logic to handle HTTP errors and 404 responses, reducing pipeline interruptions and improving robustness of data acquisition. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved data fidelity for WoW 11.x simulations, enabling more accurate testing and faster iteration on balance-related changes. - Increased release reliability through robust data pipelines and retry mechanisms, reducing downtime due to external data source failures. - Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of data refresh, packaging, and delivery for live balance scenarios, aligning technical efforts with business value in player experience and patch readiness. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Data modeling and live balance integration across versions, build data management, and versioned data assets. - Robust data pipelines with retry, CDN failover and error handling strategies. - Dependency updates and performance-focused improvements in the dbc data layer.
November 2024
9 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month: 2024-11 – Concise monthly summary focusing on key developer accomplishments for simulationcraft/simc. The month centered on delivering live-data driven balance updates for WoW 11.x, stabilizing the data pipelines, and strengthening data extraction reliability to support ongoing game balance and rapid release readiness. Key outcomes: - Data accuracy and balance: Implemented Global Spell Data Refresh and Balance Tuning to regenerate spell data, update coefficients and attributes across multiple spells, and apply hotfix/build-data updates reflecting live balance across WoW 11.x builds. This ensures the simulator mirrors live game balance and enables reliable testing for future patches. - Build-data and live updates: Executed and tracked data refreshes across Build 57388 to 57689, including multiple live data updates and dump regenerations to keep the data assets in sync with live game state. - Stability and performance improvements: Upgraded the database component to 11.0.7 (dbc library) with bug fixes and minor performance improvements to boost data access reliability and parsing efficiency in the simulation data pipeline. - Data extraction resilience: Enhanced the Data Extraction Tool (casc_extract) with CDN failover and retry logic to handle HTTP errors and 404 responses, reducing pipeline interruptions and improving robustness of data acquisition. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved data fidelity for WoW 11.x simulations, enabling more accurate testing and faster iteration on balance-related changes. - Increased release reliability through robust data pipelines and retry mechanisms, reducing downtime due to external data source failures. - Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of data refresh, packaging, and delivery for live balance scenarios, aligning technical efforts with business value in player experience and patch readiness. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Data modeling and live balance integration across versions, build data management, and versioned data assets. - Robust data pipelines with retry, CDN failover and error handling strategies. - Dependency updates and performance-focused improvements in the dbc data layer.
October 2024
4 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 – Concise monthly summary focused on data-driven spell balance and routine data refresh for simulationcraft/simc. Key updates include Build 57292 live data balance and tooltip refinements, and Build 57171 Shaman data refresh. The work improves accuracy of DPS simulations, reduces post-release hotfix cycles, and strengthens data integrity across live/test environments.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 – Concise monthly summary focused on data-driven spell balance and routine data refresh for simulationcraft/simc. Key updates include Build 57292 live data balance and tooltip refinements, and Build 57171 Shaman data refresh. The work improves accuracy of DPS simulations, reduces post-release hotfix cycles, and strengthens data integrity across live/test environments.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness91.6%
Maintainability91.6%
Architecture90.8%
Performance89.6%
AI Usage20.2%
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C++PythonTexttext
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API IntegrationBackend DevelopmentBalance AdjustmentsBalancingBug FixBug FixingBuild HotfixesBuild ManagementBuild SynchronizationBuild SystemBuild System IntegrationBuild System UpdatesBuild SystemsBuild UpdatesC++
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