Co-founder / tech lead

2011-2018 BossAlien (Natural Motion)

Company co-founder of BossAlien, a game development studio based in Brighton, UK.  

I led the development of the server infrastructure on CSR Racing, and later led the graphics code development on a new unannounced title. 

In July 2012 BossAlien Ltd was acquired by Natural Motion Games Ltd.

2011-2013 CSR Racing  - Lead server infastructure programmer 

Our most notable release was CSR Racing  a free-to-play drag-racing game, which was released in June 2012, on iOS and Android.  CSR Racing, reached number one in Top Grossing and Top Free App Store charts across the world. In its lifetime CSR Racing achieved over 150 million downloads.

On CSR Racing I took on the role of Lead Server Programmer.

• I led the development of the server infrastructure, including multiplayer game servers, user profile management and payment transaction servers 

• Server infastructure was load balanced and scalable

• Live server usage averaged 1.5 million daily active users (DAU) and achieved 99.99% availability.

• I developed much of the game client flow that depended on server interaction