Nick Krecklow Email & Phone Number

Omaha, NE, US

Derry / Worldwide, GB

• Technical lead of a cross-discipline feature team of eight; spanning engineering, infrastructure, QA, art and design, and production disciplines
• Integration lead of several live Riot Games PaaS+SaaS SDK features (e.g. player-to-player chat, multi-user chat, friend/group features, ranked gameplay matchmaking) into the client and server applications (C++) and.
• Worked closely with the Hosting & Platform team to integrate game server instance discovery, automatic deployment with patchline support, and client application integrations to achieve the vision of an end-to-end.
• Implemented foundational data-driven and script-focused game engine feature sets for rapid prototyping by gameplay designers

Derry / Worldwide, GB

• Technical lead of engine networking layer with two engineering reports, with support for iOS, Android, Windows/Xbox, Linux, macOS ARM+x86, and PlayStation
• Ported C/C++ engine codebase from Windows to Linux to enable remote hosting of the application server; includes support for WSL and Docker for rapid local development iterations that remain accurate to its remote.
• Involved in the architecture and implementation of backend services (Java, Go) and cloud deployment hosting platform environments (Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Deployed custom FASTBuild distributed code-caching systems across internal development environments and CI/CD pipelines

Derry / Worldwide, GB

• Technical lead for code and engine security (e.g. anti-tamper/anti-intrusion, reproducible deterministic behavior, threat assessments) and player-facing application security (user-generated content loading, network.
• Core application server engine contributor in Java (e.g. job scheduling/threading, TCP networking, garbage collection JRE runtime optimization)
• Integrated backend services (Java, gRPC, Protobuf) with client application (C#) and internal development workflow pipelines (NodeJS)

• Early engineer involved in growing our player base from 15,000 peak CCU (concurrently connected users) to 60,000+ with over 16 million unique players and three Guinness World Records.
• Developed backend infrastructure to manage infrastructure hardware, automatic game server deployment, and real-time game services (e.g. matchmaking, moderation tools). Our bandwidth would exceed petabytes of traffic.
• Network Operations team member, ensuring reliable gameplay 24/7 for our world-wide player baseamidst constant DDoS attacks (such as the Mirari botnet attacks of 2016).
• Anticheat project lead, responsible for the automated detection of millions of cheaters by reverse-engineering cheat implementations, developing self-learning detection mechanisms, and correlating data sources to.