David Banks
Chief Executive Officer at Elodie Games
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Banks is a game-focused technology CEO and seasoned engineering leader with over 7 years of documented experience and a two-decade career shaping high-scale games and platforms. He helped scale League of Legends to nearly 100M players as Technical Director and VP of Production, later leading large engineering organizations and founding Elodie Games to build cross-play, co-op experiences. His background blends mechanical engineering and physics (Caltech, UCLA, Wesleyan) with hands-on software architecture, hiring hundreds of AAA engineers, and a conviction that sustainable team culture drives product excellence. Known for moving projects from R&D into production, he pairs a maker’s curiosity—teaching himself BASIC as a kid and remaining hands-on with code—with executive-level strategy and forecasting. Less obvious: he chose leadership paths to change industry norms around developer treatment, inspired by early startup and Riot experiences, and now applies that ethos to building healthier studios and enduring player experiences.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Wesleyan UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (54)
proofs10
noir10
elliptic-curve9
sandbox9
programming-language9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
cryptography9
coq9
vscode9
keybindings9
curve9
compiler8
vim8
aot8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dbanks12/crkbd_qmk_keymap
Aug 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches, 5 issues in 3 years
dbanks12/aztec-packages
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:37 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
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