Tangentially related but I immediately recognized the person in the video in the article as "AltF4" who has done a lot of work in the Super Smash Bros. Melee scene. He has worked on slippi[1], created a Python API library for the game[2], and coded a bot[3] to demonstrate the library which professional players find very difficult to beat based on its inhuman reaction times (as you'd expect).
I've always wondered what some of these Melee players do as a real job and I guess in this case I found out by accident (in hindsight, the name of the company is in his Github bio, which I had never checked before).
AltF4, Dan Salvato, Fizzi, and UnclePunch are all absolute legends. All of the things they've done to improve Melee are staggering. Amazing work by all of them.
I've always wondered what some of these Melee players do as a real job and I guess in this case I found out by accident (in hindsight, the name of the company is in his Github bio, which I had never checked before).
1. https://slippi.gg/about
2. https://github.com/altf4/libmelee
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3v6uPuKic