Open source software

Below are projects for which I am the chief or sole contributor.

asbplayer

A popular Chrome extension and browser-based media player with features intended to help serious, tools-savvy language-learners.

pgs-parser

A BluRay subtitle file parser for the browser. I wrote this to support BluRay subtitle files in asbplayer.

Video editing

Fragic

When I was younger I made a lot of frag videos for an old Quake 3 mod called Urban Terror. This is my last video and the one I’m most proud of.

Certifications

JLPT N1

The N1 is the most difficult level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. I passed it with a near-perfect score. Of course, this exam is not a precise representation of real Japanese language Proficiency, but I’m proud of this accomplishment nonetheless.

Professional experience

While my focus has been in application servers, I consider myself to be a versatile generalist with experience using a wide breadth of technologies.

2017-2025: N3TWORK

At N3TWORK I was primarily responsible for designing, building, and operating the backend components of N3TWORK’s games as a member of very small teams. We used Java servers backed by DynamoDB and Redis, and used Apache Thrift to communicate with game clients.

Legendary: Heroes Unchained

N3TWORK’s foray into web3 gaming using Legendary IP. I was responsible for all of the game’s web3 integrations, including the NFT smart contract, user authentication, the open marketplace, and payments.

Tetris

Tetris had a realtime component to support various multiplayer game modes, including one that regularly saw traffic of on the order of 10,000 concurrent connections. I took point on many user-facing and non-user-facing systems ranging from matchmaking to deployment of our realtime servers.

Legendary: Game of Heroes

A card collector RPG similar to Puzzles and Dragons. I was one of two engineers responsible for the game’s backend.

2013-2017: Zynga

Zynga Poker

Zynga Poker was one of Zynga’s oldest games and featured a very old backend written in PHP and backed by MySQL and Memcached. The poker simulation was implemented using a realtime server written in Java and JavaScript. I was mostly a feature developer but also spent a lot of time working on non-user-facing systems.

Education

I graduated in 2013 from Stanford University with a BS in mathematics.