Work

Striking Distance Studios

Network Engineering Manager

December, 2020 - Present

Lead online services & platform integration for The Callisto Protocol using Unreal Engine 4.

Senior Online Services Programmer

July, 2018 - November, 2020

Lead online services for Marvel's Avengers on a 25+-year-old C++ engine.
Managed Marvel's Avengers's Java backend server to provide a suite of features covering PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Steam, XBOX One, and XBOX Series X & S platforms.
Created & integrated games-as-a-service features such as purchasing, account management, inventory, transactions, and cheat-prevention.
Onboarded & managed multiple contractors and full-time engineers on both client-side & backend tracks.
Created technical design documents and delegated them to other engineers.
Optimized several server-side features by 1500%.
Optimized client-side metrics creation by 500%.
Collaborated with partners & co-developers across 6 timezones.
Supported the worldwide launch of Marvel's Avengers Beta across 3 platforms with 6+ million unique users becoming PlayStation's most-downloaded beta in history.
Supported the worldwide launch of Marvel's Avengers across 4 platforms.

Lead Software Engineer

August, 2017 - May, 2018

Built a shared C# backend & client-side C# codebase for a mobile, real-time battle arena game in Unity 3D and .NET Core.
Designed and propagated unit test, game logic, and UI workflows.
Developed a C# reflection-based rewind system for lag-managed real-time battle simulations.
Partnered with cross-studio core technology teams and contributed critical core library improvements & fixes.

Senior Server Engineer

March, 2016 - August, 2017

Designed a cloud-agnostic, Docker-based REST game service API architecture and deployed it to AWS.
Established a core technology team to create centralized C# online game services.
Implemented online game service features on multiple Unity 3D C# game clients.
Created technical design documents for game features and core service APIs.
Set up unit and integration test processes for all API functionality.
Optimized TCP socketed services to reduce bandwidth usage over 85% and increase user capacity by 4000%.

Software Engineer

January, 2014 - March, 2016

Developed C++ libraries used across all Blizzard teams & games, including Hearthstone (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android), Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (Windows, Mac), World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor (Windows, Mac), Heroes of the Storm (Windows, Mac), StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (Windows, Mac), Overwatch (Windows, PS4, Xbox One), and World of Warcraft: Legion (Windows, Mac).
Contributed to a company-wide fork of the C++ and LUA Premake project that provided cross-platform C++ libraries with minimal configuration and deterministic compilation.
Collaborated with technical writers to establish a styled Doxygen documentation flow for all of Battle.net.
Built shared C++ libraries for telemetry data, WebSocket connections, inter-process communication, and payment systems. Provided support to game teams during integration and adjusted libraries per team feedback.
Integrated features and bug fixes to the core Battle.net game services which are used by over 46 million users.
Created an off-screen, shared graphics memory rendering system using the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) and integrated it into World of Warcraft and additional game prototypes.

Lead Server Engineer

September, 2013 - December, 2013

Collaborated with leadership to create a Python and MySQL REST API service for the iOS game Tank Nation.
Established a Puppet-based deployment system for AWS.

Lead Server Engineer

March, 2013 - September, 2013

Created analytical and gameplay logic REST API systems using PHP and Zend framework.
Integrated API and additional features into Bingo (iOS, Android) and Slots (iOS, Android).
Improved MySQL indexing and data structures and added new gameplay modes to Arms Cartel (iOS).
Advised leadership on technology choices and cost reductions while designing new mobile titles.

Senior Software Engineer

November, 2012 - February, 2013

Created a web interface for users to create triggers that specified analytical and A/B testing events.
Optimized MySQL queries to improve application performance.
Built a payment verification system with vendor APIs, backed by a MySQL cluster.
Created Unity 3D integration for PlayPhone's proprietary mobile SDK and payment APIs.

Server Engineer

September, 2011 - October, 2012

Developed game features in a REST API on a LAMP stack using MySQL and PHP.
Integrated Facebook, Google+, and DemonWare APIs.
Launched web games Ghost Recon Commander (Facebook, Ubisoft) and Pettington Park (Google+, Zynga).
Collaborated with publishers to prioritize game features and assess game milestone goals.

Associate Software Engineer

September, 2010 - July, 2011

Integrated bug fixes and features into the PVP.net platform service, which powers League of Legends (Windows, Mac).
Created MySQL scripts to denormalize player data into JSON entries, increasing data read & write speeds.
Lead establishment of the Build Team, which provided continuous integration builds via an Ant & Maven build system and Jenkins build pipeline.