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San Francisco, California, US

Developing and supporting back-end distributed systems based on Java/Python running in AWS via Kubernetes and EC2... and so much more every day.

San Francisco, California, US

Development and support of Zynga's core infrastructure systems. Java|Python|Docker|Kubernetes|AWS|MySQL

Austin, Texas, US

Implemented, refactored, and debugged various features of the core ML job runtime. This provides a execution abstraction on top of against AWS Batch, Kubernetes, and Rancher orchestrators backed by AWS and Azure cloud providers.Developed method and framework for automated (CI) testing of the core ML job runtime, which had been largely untestable because of.

Redwood City, US

Server engineer for the Defiance MMO, charged with optimizing and scaling the game's back-end services and architecture.

Contract server development for the mobile title Creature Quest. This is probably the smallest dev team I've worked on, and also one of the most productive. While working with the team, I:* Helped ship Creature Quest and support the live product.* Implemented server-side game play logic for the guild system.* Built an integration testing system to validate.

Austin, Texas, US

Evaluated third-party server platform offering for potential new title. Recommended a strategy for adoption that focused on iterative experimentation with the product and incremental growth of the architecture with increased scale.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

Consulted on high-level server architecture for a potential new title.

Victoria, British Columbia, CA

Designed and implemented server-side game and infrastructure systems for the War Commander: Rogue Assault and Game Services Platform teams. Implemented subsystem for retrieving server-side game content from heterogeneous data stores. Implemented chat service in Scala and Akka. Integrated game services with enterprise logging infrastructure using Kafka.

Redwood City, US

I designed, implemented, and/or enhanced a number of critical infrastructure and back-end systems that helped launch Rift in 2011. These include a crash handling service, a monitoring service to detect and restart crashed server processes, a game event logging infrastructure and log search tool. In addition, I contributed to scalability testing, and the.

Bellevue, WA, US

I demoted myself from Lead Programmer to this position, because I wanted to get back to hands-on problem solving for a while. As part of this, I got to choose and train my successor. This was a great experience. It allowed me to view my performance and decisions as a Lead from a different (and enlightening) perspective.Spearheaded improvements to our.

Bellevue, WA, US

Built and led team of 15 programmers through product launch and live operations. Provided technical design guidance and oversight for major systems. Supported project planning by identifying task scope, dependencies and risks.Defined architecture objectives for client and server performance, server scalability, data integrity, metrics, and server.

Bellevue, WA, US

Architected the core game scripting system and related tools. Implemented a suite of interactive objects for scripting game play scenarios.Implemented game features including client and server collision detection, movement control, combat, game object simulation, and server metrics.Instituted continuous integration for the project by creating an automated.

Implemented item and inventory game systems in Python and C++ for the Ultima Online 2 MMO project (cancelled).

New York City, NY, US

Implemented a UNIX framework in C++ for enabling web products to access the LEXIS-NEXIS online databases. Led development of vertical market web search products implemented on Windows NT using Microsoft web technologies.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Ba, Finance, Real Estate, English

Computer Science