Damien Murtagh
Engineer at Quadrant4 AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Murtagh is an experienced engineering leader with over a decade in the games industry, currently building at the intersection of AI, human connection, and the digital economy in San Francisco. He has led cross-functional teams from client, backend and devops to ship live‑operated mobile titles at scale—most recently managing a 12‑person team that supported a 500,000 DAU time‑management game with monthly heavy content releases. His background spans hands‑on Unity engineering, server‑authoritative mobile systems, real‑time multiplayer, and tooling, with stints driving studio‑level tech reuse and operational reliability at EA and Glu. Damien also explores product entrepreneurship through Trad App, a companion for Irish traditional music, and prototypes game ideas in public game jams. Known for developing talent and building high‑trust teams, he combines practical systems thinking with a creative maker’s mindset informed by an MSc in Interactive Entertainment Technology. An uncommonly musical engineer, he brings creative rhythm (literally) to collaborative product development.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Interactive Entertainment Technology, Software Engeneering, Maths, Graphics, Animation, Physics, Vision Systems, XNA Development, MSc in Interactive Entertainment Technology, Software Engeneering, Maths, Graphics, Animation, Physics, Vision Systems, XNA Development at Trinity College DublinBSc in Computer Applications, Computer Science and Software Engineering, BSc in Computer Applications, Computer Science and Software Engineering at Dublin City University
Github Skills (16)
windows10
metal10
cocos-creator10
lua10
ios10
game-development10
game-engine10
cocos2d-x10
android10
rendering5
svg-images3
coreanimation3
2d-game2
cpp2
opengl1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dmurtagh/cocos2d-x
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 push, 5 branches in 4 months
cocos2dcppwindowsios-androidlinux
apearlman/MopubSDKXamarinBinding
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:1 push in 5 months
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