Avram Lyon
SVP, Technology - Monopoly GO at Scopely
Culver City, California, United States
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Top SchoolAvram Lyon is a seasoned technology leader with 16 years of experience building scalable game backends and publishing systems, currently serving as SVP, Technology for Monopoly GO at Scopely. He combines deep application development skills and an information-theoretic foundation with hands-on delivery of AWS-based services, event warehousing (Kinesis/Redshift), and high-volume mobile launches. A polyglot thinker fluent in formal language families, he picks up new methods and languages rapidly and champions standards-based, accessible design. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to the widely used Zotero project, improving reference data quality across several scholarly translators. Before moving into games tech leadership, he spent years teaching Russian and developing immersive language curricula, a background that informs his collaborative, user-focused approach to product and team development. Based in Culver City, he blends academic rigor (MA in Slavic Literatures, BA in Mathematics and Russian) with pragmatic engineering at scale.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics Russian, BA Mathematics Russian at Grinnell CollegeGalesburg High SchoolCertificate Russian language and politics, Certificate Russian language and politics at Kazan State UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Russian, Tatar, Czech, bashkir, Turkish
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zotero/zotero
Jun 2010 - Nov 2011
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:361 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Avram's commits focus on enhancing the functionality of the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts translator by adding support for book sections. They also fixed the Highwire 2.0 translator, made code adjustments to address issues within the AMS MathSciNet, IEEE Xplore, and other related translators. Furthermore, the contributions include adjustments to the date and PDF handling within the Highwire 2.0 translator, which aligns with the task of improving the quality of reference data.
collectorganizetool-usesharezotero
scopely/mapper
Aug 2016 - Jul 2022
Simplified DynamoDB usage for modern Java applications
Contributions:66 commits, 22 PRs, 52 pushes in 5 years 11 months
guiceaws-dynamodbobjectmappersimplifiedjava-applications
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