Summary
Alastair Patrick is a contract programmer based in San Francisco with nine years of professional experience and a background that spans AAA game development and large-scale engineering at Google. He shipped multiple published console titles early in his career—credits include The Bourne Conspiracy, Darkwatch, Reign of Fire and Fireblade—and later applied that real-time, performance-driven mindset to senior software work at Google. Now freelancing since 2013, he blends low-level systems and gameplay programming expertise with experience in large engineering organizations to deliver reliable, high-performance code. His career path reflects an unusual combination of entertainment software craftsmanship and production-grade engineering discipline.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, BEng at The University of Edinburgh