Chris Jacobson
Principal Software Engineer at Blizzard Entertainment
Lake Forest, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Jacobson is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building networking, multiplayer, and online services across PC, console, and server platforms. He has led networking and systems engineering for major titles like Diablo IV, Overwatch, and multiple Diablo and Command & Conquer releases, with deep expertise in client/server comms, encryption, PSN/XBL integration, and high-availability back-end services. Comfortable across low-level sockets and assembly debugging to high-level service APIs and database integrations, he combines hands-on engineering with light technical-director responsibilities in planning and scheduling. At Blizzard he’s driven reliability and DevOps improvements for Battle.net while architecting cross-service server-to-server integrations. Based in Lake Forest, CA, he’s known for solving tricky platform-specific networking challenges and shipping live services at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (12)
minecraft10
forge10
gradle10
java9
monster5
poster3
vtt3
appearance3
foundry2
actor1
npm1
advertising1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MaineQat/ose
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Unofficial Old School Essentials on Foundry VTT
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
old-schoolfoundryvttfoundry-vtt
Minecolonies/minecolonies
Aug 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:148 commits in 2 years 2 months
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