Summary
Jake O'hara is a Principal Architect with 20+ years of engineering experience and a decade in senior architecture roles, currently leading cross-functional teams at Aristocrat from Las Vegas. He specializes in designing scalable, pluggable systems for gaming and enterprise environments, with deep hands-on expertise in .NET, C++11/14, Linux, service buses, and multi-site Web API architectures. Jake has driven large integration projects, M&A technical due diligence, and authored company-wide design and implementation guidelines as a founding member of an Architecture Review Board. His work ranges from low-level DirectX render engines and dynamic G2S protocol engines to cloud-friendly multi-site progressive systems, showing an ability to bridge embedded, backend, and UI domains. Notably, he created reusable community game engines and data-gathering utilities that improved corporate-level game metrics and product extensibility.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at South Dakota Mines