Brian Herrera
Sr. Software Development Engineer at Amazon Game Studios
California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Herrera is a senior software development engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, CI/CD pipelines, and AI tooling for game development at Amazon and Amazon Game Studios. He played a key role in launching and maintaining the Open 3D Engine (O3DE), contributing to core lifecycle and settings registry code that improved cross-platform reliability for AAA-grade tooling. At Amazon he scaled version control infrastructure to multi-region deployments, created engine plugins for AWS integration, and now architects generative AI-driven publishing workflows that speed releases and boost operational resilience. Based in California, he blends deep systems engineering with practical product focus, turning half-baked ideas into production-ready code and developer-friendly tooling. Outside of day-to-day work he gravitates toward open-source collaboration and low-friction automation that unlocks team productivity.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Information Systems at The University of Toledo
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Github contributions (5)
o3de/o3de
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 183 reviews, 88 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian's primary contribution involved modifying the `AzCore/Component/ComponentApplication.cpp` file, which suggests work related to the core functionalities and lifecycle management within the Open 3D Engine. The changes include adding an event logger and modifying settings registry interactions. They added handlers to handle the bootstrap and command line arguments.
c-plus-plusmulti-platformcommercialworldshalo
o3de/o3de-jenkins-pipeline
Sep 2022 - Aug 2024
This project automates the deployment of the O3DE Jenkins Pipeline that runs the checks on all pull requests submitted to the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 11 months
jenkinspipelineautomatesdeployment3d-engine
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