Brett Morien
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Electronic Arts (EA)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Morien is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in Seattle with 11 years of professional experience leading teams and building reliable online and desktop systems across gaming, media, logistics, and cloud platforms. Currently at Electronic Arts he leads engineering for player-to-player transaction services—delivering orchestrated sagas for gifting and brokered trading in live game economies. He pairs hands-on backend craftsmanship (notably contributions to the Orbit virtual actor framework around routing, metrics, and DI) with people leadership and platform work on Kubernetes provisioning and distributed services. Brett’s background spans startups to large enterprises like Microsoft and EA, with a knack for turning complex real-time requirements into maintainable systems and production-ready observability.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
orbit10
orbits10
distributed-systems10
dependency-injection10
grpc10
testing9
micrometer9
microservices-application9
microservices9
performance-analysis8
performance-analytics8
performance-monitor8
performance-tuning8
performance-measurement8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
orbit/orbit
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Orbit - Virtual actor framework for building distributed systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 releases, 108 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on the development and enhancement of the Orbit framework's server-side components. Their work included introducing routing classes, connecting client connections through routing, and refactoring server-side routing logic. They also made changes to the underlying infrastructure, including introducing metrics instrumentation and making improvements to the dependency injection implementation. The user also addressed issues related to addressable deactivation and message rerouting.
orbitdistributed-systemsactoractor-frameworkvirtual-actor
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