Jul 2025 – Feb 2026 · 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Remote

• Worked in Unreal Engine
• Developed all our internal tooling and processes for live service patch shipping
• Content developer tools for tagging content for specific release schedules/dates
• Validation tools to capture content that may ‘leak’
• Extensive user and technical documentation for ‘how to use’ and ‘how it works’
• Worked with build & automation engineers to deploy patch-specific builds for playtests and shipping
• Performance optimizations
• Improved UI performance through enabling, fixing and changing UE global invalidation
• UE Wwise load-time optimization

Aug 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Worked in Unreal Engine
• Developed an aim assist system for 3rd person aiming
• Developed deterministic procedural generation system for static and dynamic objects populating the world
• Placement and preview tooling for content creators
• Seeded randomization for deterministic reproducibility and network bandwidth savings
• Worked closely with designers to extend the perception system to handle stealth awareness mechanics
• Managed the P4 merging and integration of project’s Unreal Engine upgrades
• Integrated Rive in Unreal and a separate web app, designing and engineering UIs for both
• Worked with Rive developers to provide input and feedback on game UI usage and tooling
• Developed a custom UE plugin for FlatBuffer integration
• Developed a tool to generate flatbuf message schemas from Unreal objects
• Direct flatbuf data serialization/deserialization from/to Unreal objects
• Developed in-engine and remote gameplay debugging tools

Feb 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Lead for the gameplay and UI groups, managing a team of 3 engineers
• Worked in Unreal Engine
• Evaluated and implemented middle-ware for roll-back networking solution
• Developed evaluation plan, identify short and long-term risks, identify content authoring benefits and drawbacks
• Worked closely with designers to prototype new gameplay ideas with simple authoring tools
• Developed rudimentary build deployment scripts for internal playtests
• Worked closely with animators to develop character animation setup
• Implemented efficient roll-back friendly animation systems
• Developed asset management system for simple, efficient run-time asset loading
• Developed debug tool foundation to support quick-to-implement game debuggers

Jan 2016 – Nov 2021 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• Managed a team of 7 engineers (4 local, 3 remote), working in proprietary engine
• Responsible for wide-ranging aspects of gameplay UI feature engineering from concept to release
• Worked closely with UX designers and artists to create highly stylized UI systems
• Worked closely with server engineers to integrate server-side systems
• Worked closely with producers to manage project planning, schedules and estimations
• Developed UI systems using an in-house XAML implementation for OW1
• Oversaw and aided in the development of an in-house proprietary UI language, tools and systems for OW2
• Led the development of all features for Overwatch 2
• Managing the features team internal and public reveal milestones
• Worked with gameplay designers to develop intuitive character-specific and objective HUDs
• Led and produced multiple prominent player-facing features
• Oversaw and aided the development of prominent player-facing live and upcoming features
• ImGui development tools for UI memory usage profiling and server stack configuration management

Apr 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Worked in Unity
• Responsible for all aspects of client UI engineering
• Shipped multiple expansions and adventures
• Worked closely with designers to develop multiple end-to-end features
• Developed all client UI implementations of the mobile version
• Primary client engineer for multiple notable player-facing features
• Generic “Adventure UI” system for use by all Hearthstone adventures
• Filtering systems for card management
• “Deck recipe” system for designer-made deck templates
• Several in-house systems to improve the workflow of building 3D UI
• Built Unity editor tools for managing card data
• Expanded on the Hearthstone card pack store to accommodate for new adventures and expansions
• Redesigned and refactored the card management system for ease of use and greater flexibility

Mar 2014 – Apr 2014 · 1 mo

• Credited:
• Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
• Worked on Battle.net app team:
• Developed internal test automation platform, managing VMs, workers and test suites for testing product delivery tools
• Developed, designed and documented tools and testing platform to serve as central hub for internal tools

Sep 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Credited:
• StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
• Hearthstone
• Worked on the Battle.net app and distribution teams:
• Helped build on existing systems to deliver the best download/install/patch experience for players
• Developed new tools to simplify and automate internal product testing and verification
• Identified testing/development process bottlenecks and implemented flexible, scalable solutions

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos

• Responsible for prototyping and designing UI interfaces for the online components of the Ghost Recon Online (PC) title.