Rob Zobell Email & Phone Number

Sandy, Utah

Software Engineer working on the Lucidchart tool.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

* Front-end & back-end web development on C&RS component of industry-leading 360e MD health care software (JS/HTML + C++ (back-end))* Helped architect and implement Continuous Integration solution to improve quality of consumer-facing software. Worked primarily on back-end which deployed 16 SKUs on every build, and ran 40k+ tests against installations per day. (Python + MongoDB)* Wrote internal web dashboards to expose status and summaries of work performed (AngularJS (front-end) + Python / CherryPy / MongoDB (back-end))

Greater Salt Lake City Area

* Led a team of four Senior Programmers and two Technical Artists as we built, deployed, and maintained a full suite of custom tools to ship the best-selling Infinity franchise of games.* Led the development of key initiatives, including: a new custom UI tool suite (authoring through presentation), which reduced CPU and memory usage by 4x and 8x; a memory utilization tool which tracked every alloc/dealloc in the game with full callstacks and user-friendly visualizations; and a templatable animation system to which allowed rapid reuse of assets.* Personally responsible for development and support of: a Django/REST/MySQL Linux back-end for our central Asset Management Hub tool (500 concurrent users, 300k assets); a C# tool to enable rapid QA of our 23-SKU localization effort; and Python tools to render marketing materials and videos, allowing much higher-quality renders than before (720p -> 4k).

Greater Salt Lake City Area

* Added networking capability to our in-house engine & managed network libraries and their deployment across eight shipped platforms. Assisted in porting these libraries to new platforms.* Synchronized game state using scheme to minimize network bandwidth to fit within 64kbps minimum constraints (8x improvement) while keeping latency low (<100ms).* Optimized network and character update code to take 0.8ms per frame, down from 5-6ms.* Co-inventor of US Patent #9,092,114 B2 for system to keep distributed dynamic worlds in sync.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

* Led team of six that provided the engine and tools support & features for the Cars 2 game.* Innovated transparent Agile process to schedule engine features and gain consensus among all stake-holders as we brought product with hard deadline and tight schedule to market.* Wrote suite of automated tests which fed into custom HTML/JS/jQuery web report.* Created custom Python tools to generate all in-game pre-rendered cinematics in the game.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

* Designed and built from the ground-up a build distribution tool to deliver builds from our server farm to all content-creators in the studio.* Contributed in design and implementation of our Infrastructure, Dev Environment, and Source Control layer. Managed integrations and merges between our three distinct code lines.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

* Online Programmer responsible for stats tracking system consisting of 2500+ in-game stats tracked for each player. Designed, implemented and maintained the server-side support and computation of these stats.* Wrote JSP web apps to serve these stats to a custom in-game web browser that was extended by me, and for making these stats viewable and usable by third-party web site.* Primary engineer tasked with localization of Warhawk into 15 non-US-English languages. Implemented and extended tools for translators, engineers, and producers to easily manage all of the languages.* Assumed ownership of and extended existing in-game systems.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

* Designed and implemented a replay system to drive non-player characters through the game-world. Wrote a streaming system to support the replays* Network programmer on Amped 4 responsible for remote-boarder synchronization and management. Designed scheme to limit the amount of network traffic sent.* Created automated testing, audio, building and content pipeline tools for Amped 3 & 4.* Designed and implemented tools in ASP, JavaScript, and C# to assist with automation of Testing & QA on titles, and implemented and managed automated build process.