The city of Liverpool

 Since August, 2021

Senior Online Services Programmer @ Firesprite

I'm working at a Sony studio on a ground-breaking, next generation PvP shooter project with a Games-as-a-Service focus

Responsibilities

  • Architecting reliable and robust online systems for a AAA action shooter project using AWS
  • Integrating with platform systems as required by writing portable Unreal Engine C++ plugins
  • Managing game-client to game-server communication and lifecycle
  • Evaluating Software-as-a-Service solutions, helping create and manage client relationships
  • Liasing with QA to support bug triage and playtesting
  • Devops encompassing documentation and reporting of our systems, automating scalable deployment
  • Providing mentorship to junior programmers
  • Actively supporting the diversity, equality, inclusion (DEI) group as a trained mental health champion

Achievements

NDA (sorry!)