Jonathan Lanier Email & Phone Number

Jonathan Lanier is a Senior Programmer at Naughty Dog. He possess expertise in video games, ps3, game development, gameplay, xbox 360 and 2 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Jonathan will always be the magic man in my book when it comes to making things work that I have no idea how to. He and I had many talks about new hardware in the early days of graphics hardware acceleration. He was working on blackbox consoles before most of the rest of the world. My favorite moments were when he would come by and say, "That thing we thought was impossible, I got it working." It was a great time to be working in the industry and he stood out as a great guy in that time. I miss those days and his black office. Jonathan is something special.", "I managed Jonathan directly at Westwood Studios through a series of technically extremely challenging, and yet ultimately highly successful projects. Jonathan provided the technical wizardry that enabled us to move the PC centric Command & Conquer and Red Alert C++ codebases to the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation (and later N64). The fact that neither Sega nor Sony provided an actual C++ compiler for these platforms, and that we were still able to make the entire engine compile, and fit in the meager memory on those platforms, was nothing short of a miracle at the time. Jonathan displayed a deep technical knowledge from C++ right down to the hardware that is second to none. It is my pleasure to write this recommendation, and I would have zero hesitation to work with him again.", and "Jon was, and remains, one of the most brilliant human beings alive. Not only is he a singularly brilliant programmer (and has been, since birth), he can see through solid steel and lift a thousand times his own weight. I've also heard that he learned how to transmute lead into gold, but he won't tell me how. Seriously, he's the most brilliant programmer I've ever met, and that's saying something, as I met hundreds of 'em. I was always amazed by how quickly he could solve a sticky programming problem that stumped lesser men. Bow before him, and rejoice!"

Listed skills include Video Games, Ps3, Game Development, Gameplay, and 3 others.

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