Chao Jin
Advisor, Gaming at 1000Rivers
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Jin is a gaming industry strategist and hands-on product leader with 14 years of experience spanning game design, developer relations, and partnership management across mobile, VR/MR, AR, and Web3. Currently advising early-stage projects at 1000Rivers and leading account growth at Mintegral, he specializes in bridging technical integrations and commercial outcomes for North American partners. At Niantic and ByteDance he ran SDK programs, enterprise onboarding, and global developer initiatives, while earlier roles at Skillz, Tencent, and Dots grounded him in live ops, level design, and metrics-driven iteration. Known for turning developer feedback into prioritized roadmaps and managing complex partner ecosystems, he combines studio-level craft with platform-scale program management. Based in Beijing with an MFA in Game Design from NYU, he quietly thrives at the intersection of AR/GenAI innovation and practical game production.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Game Design, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Game Design at New York UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Southeast University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (62)
blueprint10
serialization10
unreal10
repair10
protobuf10
compress9
protocol-buffers9
encoder9
unreal-engine-49
data-uri9
ico9
psd9
bitmap9
rpc9
protoc9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thejinchao/protoc-gen-turbolink
Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
A protoc plugin to generate code for turbolink
Contributions:4 PRs, 59 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
thejinchao/turbolink-libraries
Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
Unreal Engine compatibile gRPC libraries
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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