— STRATEGY GUIDE —
BILL DWYER
QUEST III
The Senior Engineer Saga · 20+ Year Edition
★ WALKTHROUGH — MAIN QUESTLINE
LEVEL 1
2003
Spawn point: Green Bay, WI. Tutorial zone teaches .NET basics while maintaining CRM systems for a dairy guild (Land O'Lakes / White Clover Dairy).
LEVEL 2
2007–10
Enter the University of Phoenix dungeon — a sprawling online classroom platform housing 400,000 NPCs. Survives the dungeon for 3 years without a server crash.
BOSS DEFEATED: SCALE.EXE
BONUS
2010–11
Secret overworld unlocked — see SECRET AREA below.
LEVEL 3
2016–17
Joins DAT Solutions guild. Crafts the "Load Board" Android app and Node.js backend from raw materials.
ITEM CRAFTED: LOAD BOARD APP
LEVEL 4
2017–19
At Cvent, leads the React Native pilot party. Promoted to Tech Lead in just 6 months — a speedrun world record. Builds a Storybook component library and hosts community meetup raids.
ACHIEVEMENT: SPEEDRUN PROMOTION
LEVEL 5
2019–24
At New Relic, undertakes the legendary "50 Screens" migration — converting Java/XML relics into Kotlin/Jetpack Compose artifacts for the mobile observability tower.
BOSS DEFEATED: LEGACY CODEBASE (FINAL FORM)
LEVEL 6
2024–NOW
Currently active at eBay, exploring the Item Discovery & Offer Management region, with side quests in sales analytics and coupon systems. Recruits AI allies: Copilot, Cline, Claude Code.
★ ITEM INVENTORY
KotlinEquipped
Jetpack ComposeEquipped
CoroutinesEquipped
DaggerEquipped
RetrofitEquipped
React NativeEquipped
GraphQLEquipped
DockerEquipped
AWSEquipped
Claude Code★ Rare ★
★ EDUCATION SHRINE
2000–04
Dual-classed at Saint Norbert College: B.S. Computer Science + B.S. Philosophy. The Philosophy sub-class grants bonus calm during incident-review boss fights.
▸ SECRET AREA UNLOCKED: THE LONG ROAD
2010–2011 — Player exits the known map entirely and rides a motorcycle solo for 20,000 miles, Arizona → Argentina, over 8 months. Returns with a rare drop: the memoir "Anxiety Across the Americas." Achievement progress: 100%.