Jon Mcevoy Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, CA, US

• Head of engineering and technology at Manticore, driving the Core Platform to the next stage of its evolution.
• Managed the engineering org, with responsibilities including gameplay, performance, platform, web, and infrastructure
• Guided engineering culture to build stable, adaptable technology while maintaining startup culture and drive
• Advised and informed the rest of the executive team
• Expanded the engineering team via outreach and recruiting paired with a fair, rigorous interview process
• Implemented and adjusted lightweight but effective process that directs engineers to move in the right direction while giving them the room to excel

San Mateo, CA, US

• Took over leadership of the backend team at Manticore, with responsibilities including infrastructure, scaling, game systems, live operations, and internal tools.
• Managed the team of 4-8 engineers
• Grew the team as needed, refining our interview and onboarding processes
• Created dashboards to monitor key platform metrics including those relevant to gameplay, business, and performance
• Instituted post-mortem process after outages to better understand root causes, ultimately leading to better visibility and stability
• Started our on call system, which integrated into our alerting and metrics systems, to automatically notify engineers during possible outages or anomalous data, 24/7

San Mateo, CA, US

• Worked on a small team to write foundational systems for the Core Platform. Core is built on top of Unreal Engine, allowing anyone to create their own visually impressive multiplayer games.
• Serialization and versioning
• Integrated Lua editor improvements and hooks
• User interface architecture, tools, and framework
• Critical editor systems such as commands to support undo/redo

San Mateo, CA, US

• Managed the product engineering team on Vainglory, with responsibilities including hiring, scheduling, performance, and code quality.
• Made contributions to code including a redesign of the architecture for UI, a simple and effective data model and event system, and a generic inventory system including a transactional backend
• Led the team through large feature work with complex requirements and tight schedules

• Member of the team that initially prototyped several games, eventually leading to Trove
• Helped build the Trove engine from the ground up to support massively multiplayer worlds that are voxel based, destructible, procedurally generated, and efficiently serializable
• Hired and managed Trove engineering team up to 6 through beta, launch, and into live production
• Created and maintained master schedule for Trove feature launches
• Wrote initial engine systems with a focus on expandability, maintainability, and optimization including abstraction layers for network and data serialization, player interaction systems, synchronized client/server.
• Optimized server and network performance by reducing latency spikes due to TCP retransmission, removing redundant compression, and intelligently serializing network data

• Prepared Rift server infrastructure to scale for Storm Legion, our first expansion
• Optimized the use of our bare metal servers to support more users and to free hardware for other projects without degrading service for players
• Wrote system that allowed players to automatically transfer characters across shards, involving moving data between separate relational databases in a fail safe way that would prevent possibility of duplication bugs or.

• Worked on Rift before and after launch, extending systems including combat, abilities, animation and graphics
• Part of the international expansion team to bring Rift to South Korea and China

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Davis, California, US

Network development: redesigned and helped install new network system for all usersOpenBSD firewall configuration and maintenanceWindows 2003 Server maintenanceHelpdesk support for 20+ career staff and 100+ students

Davis, California, US

Set up lab experiments for undergraduate physics classesResponsible for repairing lab equipment if problems arose during lab sections