Cameron Royal
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron Royal is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of professional experience and nearly two decades shipping games and applications across consoles, PC and mobile. Based in Los Angeles and currently leading core gameplay and developer-efficiency initiatives at Riot Games, he blends deep C++ and full-stack expertise with systems thinking gained from large-scale MMOs like EVE Online and tools work at CCP. His open-source contributions include significant work on Riot’s League Director (replay API integration, playback controls and cross-platform support) and foundational networking/object-mapping improvements to RestKit, demonstrating both gameplay-facing features and backend rigor. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and modernizing legacy tooling, he also has a track record of building offline-capable mobile apps and distributed game backends. Notably, he pairs hands-on prototyping in engines like Unreal with production-grade deployment and build-system fixes, a blend that accelerates R&D into shipped features.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Software, BEng Software at Curtin University
Github Skills (25)
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objective-c10
qt10
python10
apidoc10
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restful-api10
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network-programming10
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qml10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RiotGames/leaguedirector
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
League Director is a tool for staging and recording videos from League of Legends replays
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 50 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cameron contributed extensively to the League Director project, primarily focusing on the integration of the application with the League of Legends replay API. The contributions included developing core API resource classes for interacting with the game's replay data, implementing UI elements and keybindings for controlling the replay playback, and building features like particle filtering and depth of field controls. The user also demonstrated an understanding of the project's build and deployment processes, making modifications to the build scripts and addressing cross-platform compatibility issues, including MacOS support.
videoslegendsreplaysleaguedirector
RestKit/RestKit
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the core functionality of the RestKit framework, focusing on networking and object mapping. They implemented a recursive implementation of `URLEncodedString` within `NSDictionary+RKRequestSerialization.m`. Additionally, they made several modifications to the `RKRequestQueue.m` and `RKObjectManager.h/m` files, suggesting work related to request handling, object management, and potentially serialization improvements. Further contributions included integration of NXJSON parser by fixing a compile error, indicating a focus on JSON parsing within the framework.
objective-crestfulweb-resourcesswiftios
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