Firewalk Studios provided an amazing opportunity to grow my skills and scope both as an engineer and a lead. Taking over from our initial services architect and team lead, I built a small team focused on building and integrating backend services for a AAA squad-based FPS title. We transitioned from an initial goal of creating bespoke service infrastructure to an integration-and-customization based approach partnering with AccelByte, which better leveraged our small team and kept the focus on our core mission - providing a great player experience.In addition to developing our custom services (using Rust, C# and C++), we also leveraged outsourcing partners such as Jetpack Interactive to help with integration to the many services a AAA game has utilize - authentication, matchmaking, analytics, build distribution, store services and more. We also worked with first-party teams such as Sony's Online Technology Group to load test the game and prepare for Launch Day and steady-state loads, as each of these regimes provides interesting challenges for infrastructure. Working with external teams presents unique challenges, such as differences in time zones, scheduling and priorities - I enjoyed learning how best to utilize talented folks who weren't a direct part of our organization.While in the end our game did not get the market reception we hoped for, I am still proud of our team and the fantastic work we did. Our services and infrastructure performed well and our operational practices were sound and well-prepared. And I will bring all of this experience and passion to any future project.

Taking the company's SaaS from prototype to production, building the engineering team and systems. My responsibilities include pretty much everything - design (back and front ends), UX recommendations, infrastructure and deployment management, development of our ASP.NET/MVC based back-end services and APIs, web page design and implementation using ASP.NET/Razor, Javascript/Typescript and Bootstrap, and PostgreSQL server management.

Building and maintaining the platform for GuildWars 2 and beyond...

Bringing Data Science tooling to life for everyone with Azure Notebooks.

Visual Studio is the premier software development platform for Windows, and I was a key player in updating and advancing the MSBuild build system which is integrated into the product. During my tenure I rewrote MSBuild for the 4.0 version and beyond to improve performance, reliability, scalability and maintainability. My code is responsible for building products for virtually every user of Visual Studio since 2010. I worked with customers from Fortune 500 companies down to small developers, providing guidance and technical assistance. Additionally, I was a key player in internal efforts to improve Microsoft's internal build and developer workflows.You can find my blog posts on the Visual Studio blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio.

Designed and developed a client-server architecture for enhanced messaging services on mobile devices

Manage partner relations for security and DRM technologies used in a mobile media player device.

Wildseed developed a Linux-based hardware and software platform for a mobile phone platform called Identity. I was responsible for designing and implementing the UI and non-kernel graphics subsystems, much of the application architecture and some of the database infrastructure. I also did some kernel driver work for the graphics driver and certain custom peripherals.