Work Experience
Little Orbit (California, US)
June 2018 to Present
June 2018 to Present
IT Operations Manager
Six titles on Unreal Engine and Unity
- Built backend services from the ground up for two new titles.
- Supported development teams across six titles; managed the network infrastructure.
- Set up build processes and CI/CD pipelines on on-site servers.
- Ran the backend fleet on VMware ESXi and documented how it works.
Reloaded Inc. (California, US)
February 2014 to May 2018
February 2014 to May 2018
Software Developer
Products: Fallen Earth, Hawken
- Game development and metrics collection; integrated metrics with Splunk over REST.
- Built a tool exporting Splunk data to DeltaDNA, Amplitude and NinjaMetrics.
- Reverse-engineered and documented an inherited Unreal Engine 3 project.
- Analysed and documented the inner workings of Fallen Earth.
GamersFirst (Irvine, CA)
February 2012 to January 2014
February 2012 to January 2014
Software Developer · Security Consultant
Products: APB Reloaded, Halian Rising, Knight Online
- APB Reloaded: anti-tamper research — detour scanner for critical system functions, import-table integrity checks.
- Halian Rising: integration docs for the Unity / Mono C# client, client-side features, team wiki.
- Built a server performance test bed reporting to Atlassian Bamboo and JIRA; cut server CPU use.
- Crash analysis of Windows and Linux server binaries; tier-2 support.
GamersFirst (Irvine, CA)
March 2010 to February 2012
March 2010 to February 2012
QA · Software Analyst
Products: Knight Online
- Found server crash causes with IDA Pro; fixed server code from crash reports.
- Built four QA tools: game tracker, patch comparer, debugger, quest/item/skill viewer.
- Rewrote 6 and fixed 28 Lua quest scripts; maintained the development branch.
- Fixed game-database inconsistencies and checked server–database integrity.
Volunteer Work
Knight Online (GamersFirst)
Moderator
- Reverse-engineered the client and third-party cheat tools; kept a knowledge base of exploits.
- Built tools to detect illegal items and activity, and reported findings to the developers.