Kyle D'Aoust has been programming for about 10 years. In 2004, at the age of 14, he taught himself the C++ language. By the end of high school, he had learned Visual Basic and JavaScript as well. In college, he majored in game production and specialized in the Unity engine using C#.

After graduating from college, Kyle started his career with gamifying software. He is currently working as a Serious Games Developer at Quicken Loans, creating games used as training material.