Cullen Waters
Senior Software Engineer II - EA Sports at Electronic Arts (EA)
Metro Jacksonville United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCullen Waters is a senior software engineer and founder with 11 years of professional engineering experience and a long history building large-scale online and platform systems for games and cloud services. Currently at EA Sports, he focuses on online and social features for an unannounced title, and previously led foundational engine and platform work at Respawn that yielded a 50 GiB package size reduction on PlayStation and expanded advanced controller support. He has driven scaled services at Microsoft/Mojang—growing Minecraft Realms from ~600k to over 1.5M paying subscribers and migrating the service from AWS to Azure—and has held technical director and principal engineering roles delivering cross-studio engine improvements and user-generated content infrastructure. As a founder of GSF Development he continues to run custom software work alongside studio roles, blending hands-on systems engineering with architecture and team growth experience. His background includes performance, fault-injection and devops-focused tooling, and he brings a pragmatic, platform-first approach informed by both studio shipping constraints and cloud-scale operations. Based in Metro Jacksonville, he pairs deep low-level engine expertise with proven results in cloud migrations and developer productivity improvements.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at University of North Florida
Github Skills (45)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
xbox-live10
azure10
azure-storage8
data-transfer8
apply8
xbox8
azcopy8
issue-tracking8
console7
playfab7
data-storage7
api7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BrotenStudios/xbox-live-api-csharp
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 commits in 2 months
apixboxxbox-livegame-developersapply
cuwaters/azure-docs
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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