Cody Duncan Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Gameplay Engineer with Investment Systems and Workflows team for Destiny 2Our team handles planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining systems that interact with the data stored on player's accounts and characters across the server and client machines. The largest challenges for our team are implementing or improving existing systems while migrating millions of player's persistent account data and avoiding introducing bugs.- Maintain live service game progression… Show more Gameplay Engineer with Investment Systems and Workflows team for Destiny 2Our team handles planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining systems that interact with the data stored on player's accounts and characters across the server and client machines. The largest challenges for our team are implementing or improving existing systems while migrating millions of player's persistent account data and avoiding introducing bugs.- Maintain live service game progression, inventory, achievement, rewards, and vendor gameplay systems.- Perform comprehensive CPU performance analysis to identify and propose server-side optimizations.- Author new gameplay systems and features for seasonal and yearly content released to 42 million registered players.- Refactor existing gameplay systems to reduce the scope of bugs, avoid user errors, improve in-code documentation, reduce system complexity, and incrementally improve system design.- Triage and fix developer and live service bugs impacting the developer and player experience.- Implement user-facing build automation and integrated syntax formatting utilities to improve engineering workflows.- Developed, simplified, and documented Designer workflows for building content in gameplay systems. Show less

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Gameplay Systems Engineering for the Progression and Persistence Systems. (called Investment Gameplay) E.G. Inventory, Vendors, Microtransactions, Achievements, Quests, Rewards, etc.Primarily in C++, and C# for server-side changes.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Live Team - Helped build and ship seasonal content and quality of life fixes in Destiny.

Redmond, Wa

Developed for Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars. Worked on a team of 30+ engineers, artists, designers, and management. Created the network communication layer to allow millions of players to share content via Nintendo’s servers across North America, Japan, and Europe. This involved network status, data management, asynchronous processing, and UI backend development. Collaborated with the Nintendo test team to robustly handle hundreds of network failure cases.

Lake Forest, Il And Princeton, Nj

Instructor for iD Programming Academy. Taught Programming 101; instructed high school students in the basics of C++, Java, Python, and Javascript over two 2-week summer camp sessions.

Worked as a software engineer on a project to simulate wargaming on the Microsoft Surface platform for the United States Military.

Maryville, Missouri

Formerly a Teaching Assistant for the Data and File Structures Course. My responsibilities include creating coursework, grading student work, assisting students with projects, and maintaining student records. The language used is Java.During the Spring 2010 semester, I was the assistant for Programming I.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

My duties were to fix defects within a large software application. I worked amongst a team of 8 and three other interns along with other departments. My tasks in defect fixing included large amounts of documentation, analysis, code writing in C# and .Net, and collaboration with other engineers.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Game Engine Architecture Club Spritebatching, Discrete Physics, Shader Programming, Particle System, Component.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Association for Computing and Machinery (ACM) at Northwest Missouri State University (NWMSU), Fellowship.