Tech lead at Ouro, Meta's interactive entertainment studio within Reality Labs. Architecting AI-powered creator tools and platform systems on Horizon, Meta's world-building framework.

Highlights:

Lead architecture and engineering for AI-powered creator experiences, taking early prototypes to production-grade systems with significant latency and reliability improvements.

Lead a cross-disciplinary pod (engineers and technical designers) responsible for architecture across all of Ouro's titles, including Super Rumble.

Contribute to, review, and approve creator-facing platform APIs spanning NavMeshes, i18n, asset ingestion, physics, entity lifetimes, and camera controls. Serve as first-prototyper feedback channel for the next-generation world-building editor.

Tech: TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, AI orchestration, distributed systems.

Founding engineer at Pragma, a multi-tenant backend platform for game studios. Joined pre-product, designed and built the core service framework that became the foundation of the company's product. Pragma scaled to 60+ employees and a $22M Series B on this codebase.

Highlights:

Designed and built the core service framework — a multi-tenant control plane for game backends — from the ground up. The architecture I established became the foundation for every feature and every customer environment that followed.

Stood up CI/CD, test, and load-validation environments using Terraform and Pulumi. The same infrastructure pattern eventually powered 50+ distinct customer environments in production, internal and external.

Owned third-party integrations end-to-end — identity (Auth0, Okta) and observability (Grafana, Honeycomb). Vendor evaluation, partnership coordination, and integration architecture.

Acted as solutions engineer for early customers, translating their game-design goals into backend implementations. This shaped product direction in the early years and built the customer-empathy muscle that informed platform decisions later.

Tech: Kotlin, Java, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS, Auth0, Grafana, Honeycomb, Protobuf, gRPC, multi-tenant SaaS.

February 2020 was a REALLY interesting time to pick up, move to another city and start a new job...

Highlights: Player facing feature development, service framework, core services, infrastructure, CI/CD, technical product owner

Riot operates at the 100+ million users monthly scale. Everything we worked on had direct impact on many, many lives, and players had to be at the forethought of all features.

Cool things I had the pleasure of collaborating with many wonderful colleagues on:

• Worked on Team Builder https://www.pcgamesn.com/leagueoflegends/league-legends-team-builder-lets-you-select-role-and-be-matched-other-players

• Designed and implemented core algorithm for positional matchmaking

• Scaled and deployed matchmaking improvements https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2018/03/dev-making-matchmaking-better/

• Improved and implemented CI/CD features, including Docker Jenkins resiliency, self-service pipeline provisioning

• Owned, fixed and improved service generator (project archetype generator for internal teams to bootstrap distributed services globally)

• Owned, fixed and improved operational monitoring services (metrics, alerts, log aggregation)

• Owned, fixed and improved core service mesh functionality (service discovery, configuration, control plane layer, etc.)

• Improved 3rd party API gateway, extending functionality for developers to build rich League of Legends applications

• Improved player safety platform features, a game agnostic service used in conjunction with identity services to keep the games safe

• Designed and implemented game agnostic services, bringing core game capabilities to all R&D teams (login queue, match history, etc.)

IC engineer, worked on a number of services focused on Vendor Capabilities, and their ability to report information to Amazon about lead time, help inform delivery scheduling and resolve disputes.