Jaiden Gerig
Senior Gameplay Engineer at Riot Games
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJaiden Gerig is a senior gameplay engineer with 11 years of experience in online games, UI/UX, and game design, based in Seattle. He currently leads gameplay engineering at Riot Games (since 2025), after shaping multiplayer and haptic features at Niantic, including unified battles and Pokestop showcases. At Amazon, he built scalable tutorials, large-scale team-based contests, and cross-game progression systems as a Software Development Engineer II. An active open-source contributor, he improved the Diaspora social network UI with mark-all-as-read and infinite scrolling, and refined Open Graph data handling. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and has a track record of delivering client-side systems, debugging tools, and UX-focused features. His work spans client-side multiplayer systems, live-ops tooling, and engaging user experiences across AAA studios and open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
socialnetworking10
rails10
ruby10
front-end-development10
social-networking10
rails510
frontend-development10
socialgraph10
javascript9
javascripts9
open-graph9
html8
sass8
cucumber8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jaiden primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the Diaspora social network platform. Their work involved modifying the behavior of the notification system, including implementing "mark all as read" functionality and integrating an infinite scrolling feature to the notifications dropdown. They also made changes to the Open Graph data handling, and fixed the deformation of getting started popovers.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
jaideng123/jaideng123
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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