James Parsons
Principal Multiplayer Engineer at Riot Games
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Parsons is a Principal Multiplayer Engineer with nearly 15 years of experience leading cross-disciplinary teams to deliver robust, engaging multiplayer systems for AAA titles, most recently driving Forza Motorsport’s acclaimed multiplayer and live-service program. He combines deep technical expertise in network programming, client/server architecture and cross-platform integration with hands-on delivery, having rebuilt critical lobby and matchmaking systems to boost matchmade lobby sizes by 25% without sacrificing match quality. James has shipped multiple Forza titles, led large teams and incubated innovative game modes through rigorous playtests, helping push multiplayer engagement to series highs and earn BAFTA recognition. He’s equally at home in low-level debugging and telemetry-driven live ops as he is mentoring engineers and shaping UX for competitive experiences, and he brings an uncommon background in MEMS research and a patent to his pragmatic, engineering-first leadership.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (42)
simulation10
artificial-intelligence10
python10
paths10
multicore10
bootstrapping10
openai10
autonomous-agents10
ai10
multiprocessing10
memoization9
slurm9
mod-manager9
ecology9
caching9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ihmeuw/covid-model-deaths
Apr 2020 - May 2020
The IHME Covid-19 Statistical deaths model
Contributions:280 commits, 74 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 month
statisticsmod-managerstatisticaldeathstriggers
ihmeuw/vivarium_gates_bep
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 review, 99 PRs, 120 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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