Build & release engineer with eight years across AAA games and SaaS. Los Angeles, CA.
Experience
Application Engineer — Colorlight USA
October 2024 – Present · Burbank, CA
- Liaison between the Shenzhen engineering team and USA customers and sales.
- Represent Colorlight at trade shows across the USA and China.
- Deep understanding of the LED industry: hardware design, LED driver IC chips, and circuits.
Build & Release Engineer — Treyarch
October 2021 – June 2024 · Santa Monica, CA
- Credited on four shipped titles: Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Warzone Mobile (2024), and Black Ops 6 (2024) — credits on MobyGames.
- Designed, configured, and maintained robust build pipelines within an internal CI/CD system for Call of Duty.
- Developed Resolvy, a merge-conflict resolution tool used by 800+ developers — recognized by the CTO and credited in Activision’s GDC presentation.
- Cut internal CI build runtime by 30% by moving Python dependency management to Poetry with parallel installs.
- Worked on the Call of Duty launcher tool adopted by all three major CoD studios.
Senior Build Engineer — Free Range Games
June 2021 – October 2021 · Sausalito, CA
- Implemented Jenkins CI with backups and deployment to AWS on spot instances.
- Used AWS CloudFormation to launch Perforce instances and edge servers.
- Managed and mentored a teammate; modified Unreal Game Sync (UGS) as the team’s frontend.
Software Development Engineer in Test — Tech Wizards Inc.
November 2020 – June 2021 · Dahlgren, VA
- Wrote automated tests in C# for a large-scale Unity3D simulation.
- Worked on state-machine management for thousands of interactive simulation components — wires, fans, switches, and everything in between.
Support Engineer — Azenta Life Sciences
November 2017 – October 2020 · Remote
- Supported FreezerPro, a Ruby on Rails SaaS product hosted on DigitalOcean and on-premises.
- Hands-on with Rails 3/5, VMware, Hyper-V, GitHub Actions deployments, and Ansible-managed droplets.
Education
University of Baltimore — B.S. Computer Science (2020)
Certifications
- TEFL — Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (The TEFL Org, 2024)
- CompTIA Security+ CE (2021)
Achievements
Resolvy — recognized by Activision’s CTO for resolving thousands of merge conflicts; credited in Activision’s GDC 2024 talk on MergeBot: presentation slides (PDF) · session video.