Jonathan Wills Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Amazon Prime Air

Lead an independent game studio working towards shipping fun and professional titles.- Re-inventing Builder Breaker for modern platforms and hopefully consoles as well- Building the online services for future titles using AWS with highly addictive casual games- Designed, developed and produced the game Builder Breaker written in XNA and available in the.

Seattle, WA, US

- Feature lead for Tagging of resources - Implementation of API endpoints - Guiding design on sub-team - Integration with other teams - Ensure no interuption to service- Operational improvements - Guide the team in best practices to improve the on-call handling and experience to meet our customer SLA. - Created widely used tools for easier debugging of.

Seattle, WA, US

- Key member of the Architecture design team- Project owner and leader of the overall Scene Composer- Team 3D specialist- Lead others in feature design and implementation- Provided mentoring in 3D software development- Lead best practice efforts for performant 3D- Developer of the majority of key features - Tags - Cameras - 3D cursor - Enhanced editing.

Seattle, WA, US

- Designed scalable control plane architectures utilizing various AWS services - Built features for the SiteWise Modeling Service- Interfaced and aided with data plane and partner teams

Vancouver, BC, CA

- Primary developer/designer of the MozCon 2016 video game. (See https://jonwills.com for more details)- One of the primary developers/maintainers of the test automation infrastructure.- Mentored multiple teammates new to the industry- Developed many internal tools to aid the company- Guest speaker for well-received game development talks with ADA.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Microsoft Windows/IE: Technical SDE in Test providing tools, frameworks, automation, respected insight towards quality of design and guaranteed stable and delightful end-user experiences.
• Worked in high use and visibility areas within the Immersive IE UI providing users with a low bug highly satisfactory experience
• Wrote several well received internal tools, internal frameworks, and internal projects such as being a core developer on our widely used machine setup suite and common browser test library which increased team.
• Testing high profile project areas such as Tab View, in-page context menus, improved input handling and site pinning while managing teams of at least five members Microsoft Surface SDK:Technical SDE in Test responsible.
• Responsible for covering the developer experience of the SDK making sure that even the most obscure cases were easy to use for developers
• Wrote applications to utilize the Microsoft Surface SDK controls and UI Automation for automation testing, performed manual testing which increased coverage catching regressions and improving overall reliability of.

Buffalo, New York, US

SDE in Test in charge of tool development for internal use on the Microsoft Surface team to reduce the amount of tedious tasks in the team’s day to day jobs

• Engine and Gameplay developer for TV Games projects on a limited SPG 240 chipset and the engine teams Nintendo DS programmer with primary focus on network communication for multi-player.
• Developer responsible for Menu system, AI, first person ride perspective, economy and management screen, trophy system, and coaster rating system on the game title Crazy Coaster. The user experience was well regarded.
• Engine developer responsible development and redesign of the networking capabilities specifically Single-card Download Play, multi-card wireless play, and online Nintendo Wi-Fi play as well as 3D collision detection.