John Billingsley
Senior Software Engineer at Night School: A Netflix Game Studio
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Billingsley is a senior software engineer and game designer with six years of professional experience building engaging, cross-platform game experiences from prototype to shipped releases. He has driven gameplay and systems architecture at Blizzard (Hearthstone) and now contributes to narrative-driven and console/mobile titles at Night School, often leading small-to-medium teams and mentoring external partners. His work spans gameplay, server, client, matchmaking, and tooling—improving mature codebases while coordinating engineers, artists, and QA to hit critical milestones. John pairs creative design sensibilities (from award-winning indie projects and academic collaborations) with pragmatic engineering, automating build processes and tuning live economies to improve workflow and player experience. He’s particularly skilled at translating player-focused goals into technical systems—whether hero skins and cosmetics pipelines or dream/save systems for art-driven experiences. Based in Los Angeles with a master’s in Interactive Media and Games from USC, he consistently elevates playful ideas into polished, production-ready products.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Interactive Media and Games, Master’s Degree Interactive Media and Games at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
English
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Github Skills (60)
simulation10
simulations10
wavefront10
energy10
fusion10
dxf9
fusion-reactor9
atmosphere9
python9
brep9
3d-models9
google9
modeling9
parametric9
eagle9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ukaea/openmc_workshop
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
A selection of resources for learning openmc with particular focus on simulations relevant for fusion energy
Contributions:3 reviews, 433 commits, 171 PRs in 1 year 3 months
openmcparticularfusion-energysimulationssimulation
billingsley-john/example_python_package
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Example repository showing how to make a python package, implement testing and deploy on pypi
Contributions:3 releases, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 day
pythonpypitestingpython3python-package
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