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Redwood City, CA, US

Redwood City, CA, US

San Mateo, CA, US

• Games: Vainglory, Project Spellfire
• Designed and implemented a DataModel abstraction layer effectively decoupling data from code, enforcing data validation, and improving new feature velocity (Python).
• Spearheaded the Android launch of Vainglory. Transformed an incomplete port of the game to a launch ready title solo (C++, Java).
• Designed and implemented a complete constraint-based layout library for a proprietary UI system. Drastically reduced code bloat, improved maintainability, and moved the studio to a declarative UI philosophy (C++).
• Built 10+ fullstack game features including guilds, teams, and player quests in an effort to level up game retention and improve monetization (Python, C++, Redis).
• Implemented software font rendering tech using the STB C library. Provided dynamic runtime glyph maps allowing our tech to leverage myriad typeface while enabling new language support in engine (C++, OpenGL).

San Mateo, CA, US

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Games Shipped: Game of War: Fire Age, Race or Die 2, IMob 2
• Mentored new employees and lead junior developer game feature pods ensuring successful first deliverables.
• Conducted technical engineering interviews playing a major role in team staffing decisions and company scaling.
• One of three engineers to take Game of War from prototyping, to pre-production, production, and finally ship on two mobile platforms.
• Significant code contributions and ownership of over 20 game features and core systems in Game of War providing a high quality project codebase to build from.
• Designed and implemented a templated Entity Component System fundamentally changing our engine and game systems by decoupling data and logic. The outcome was much more cohesive engine services and cleaner game logic.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Games Shipped: Global War, Original Gangsters
• Built a scalable, multi-title, server authoritative casino system including 7 mini games with full tool suite as a massive first deliverable.
• Designed and implemented the company’s first multi-title tutorial system complete with plug-able metrics support and tooling allowing designers to engage more players.
• Rebuilt core project bootstrapping and structure to facilitate rapid prototyping and quickly generate new projects without the need of engineering support.
• Designed and implemented multi-title player gifting features with support tools.
• Optimized entire game test suite runtime by 75% significantly speeding up automated build processes and developer productivity.

• Lead developer on a 10 year old ASP.NET ecommerce website port. Performed all necessary feature updates and deprecated API corrections effectively bringing the site up to 2010 standards.
• Co-built an interactive math proficiency testing web application for the Colorado Board of Education that tests and tracks student mathematics abilities and problem solving skills--a highly customer-facing product that.
• Maintained a large code base of 3D rendering services supporting complete automation of flash video files from raw model data with validation using a fully integrated audit process.
• Built new features and updated critical checkout/purchasing systems for the company’s core ecommerce site which provides the majority of revenue while keeping downtime to an absolute bare-minimum.

Herndon, Virginia, US

• Responsible for the design, coding, testing, and integration of new system services for a distributed SOA-based tool used for the acquisition and verification of communications in a military operating system.
• Maintained and refactored key system services and components producing a more stable code base, higher rates of product efficiency, and happier customers/users.
• Operated in an agile environment collaborating with multiple development teams keeping a strong focus on key features resulting in the development of highly disciplined cross-team APIs.
• Performed regular design, code, and test review sessions with team members which supported high code standards producing an extend-able and maintainable code base.

• Acted as a software developer on a team of nine developers for a first-release developer tool deliverable.
• Responsible for the design, code, testing, and deployment of two major services in a scalable Service Oriented Architecture middleware operating environment.
• Designed, implemented, and tested a customer-facing user interface for an enterprise environment developer tool.
• Created and maintained developer-facing APIs for several mission-critical tools and services which ultimately enabled the team to be more productive and avoid milestone crunches.
• Imparted an emphasis on quality UML standard design documentation and test-driven design methodologies keeping the team organized and synchronized resulting in a successful final product.

• Installed, repaired, and maintained site computers, networking hardware, servers, printing/copying/labeling services, and embedded production software/hardware.
• Integrated new software and updates to existing data infrastructure ensuring the company’s IT infrastructure was always up and secure.
• Administered employee passwords and security clearances.

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Science

Computer Science