My Timeline
To make a long story short... I started programming in middle school (taking online courses through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth). During highschool I interned at a few non-gaming companies and completed a research project that placed first at the New York State Science & Engineering Fair. After my first year of college I landed my first industry gig at Zynga and my company released our hit indie game, NoStranger. While studying at Stanford, I continued to intern at companies, produce indie games, and teach game development. After graduating from Stanford, I landed a gig with an Epic game studio and the rumors say I've been jammin' ever since.
2020
Graduated from Stanford
Worked at Sony Santa Monica, God of War team (unreleased game)
------> Collaborated with designers to extract lua-like scripting behaviors into modular nodes of a decision tree AI
------> Worked with writers to develop a feature that updates dialogue in real-time for rapid iteration
Worked at Manticore Games
Interning at Epic Games (Fortnite)
2018 - 2019
Studied at Stanford
Taught at Stanford
Launched NSA Intern, my third indie game
2017 - 2018
Taught at Stanford
Worked at Hangar 13 of 2K Games (unreleased game)
Interned at Facebook on Social VR team (cancelled game)
Worked as a Tools intern at NCsoft (cancelled game)
------> Designed and created a Unity toolset for combat scenario testing
Began work on NSA Intern, my third indie game
2016 - 2017
Worked at Hangar 13 of 2K Games
Began studying at Stanford University
Created my second indie game, NoStranger
Interned at Zynga (cancelled game)
Worked as a design intern at Tilting Point
------> Increased Pool Elite ARPDAU by 250% by designing a dual-currency economy
------> Developed comprehensive economy and progression simulations for three games
2015 - 2016
Graduated High School
Released my first indie game, Ricochet
Released The Prescription Architect (the start of my FIP research)
Traveled around the world with my FIP research
------> Finalist Award at Google Science Fair
------> Semi-Finalist Award at Intel STS
------> Finalist Award at Intel ISEF
------> Presented research at FIP World Congress in Ireland
0000 - 2015
Worked for two consecutive summers as an intern for NASA
Interned at SS&C as a java programmer
I was born a fat little baby in Plainview, NY
Graduated from Stanford
Worked at Sony Santa Monica, God of War team (unreleased game)
------> Collaborated with designers to extract lua-like scripting behaviors into modular nodes of a decision tree AI
------> Worked with writers to develop a feature that updates dialogue in real-time for rapid iteration
Worked at Manticore Games
Interning at Epic Games (Fortnite)
2018 - 2019
Studied at Stanford
Taught at Stanford
Launched NSA Intern, my third indie game
2017 - 2018
Taught at Stanford
Worked at Hangar 13 of 2K Games (unreleased game)
Interned at Facebook on Social VR team (cancelled game)
Worked as a Tools intern at NCsoft (cancelled game)
------> Designed and created a Unity toolset for combat scenario testing
Began work on NSA Intern, my third indie game
2016 - 2017
Worked at Hangar 13 of 2K Games
Began studying at Stanford University
Created my second indie game, NoStranger
Interned at Zynga (cancelled game)
Worked as a design intern at Tilting Point
------> Increased Pool Elite ARPDAU by 250% by designing a dual-currency economy
------> Developed comprehensive economy and progression simulations for three games
2015 - 2016
Graduated High School
Released my first indie game, Ricochet
Released The Prescription Architect (the start of my FIP research)
Traveled around the world with my FIP research
------> Finalist Award at Google Science Fair
------> Semi-Finalist Award at Intel STS
------> Finalist Award at Intel ISEF
------> Presented research at FIP World Congress in Ireland
0000 - 2015
Worked for two consecutive summers as an intern for NASA
Interned at SS&C as a java programmer
I was born a fat little baby in Plainview, NY