John Elliot
Director Of Engineering at Riot Games
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Elliot is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over two decades of experience building games, cloud platforms, and backend systems, currently directing engineering for League of Legends at Riot Games. He co-founded Dynamighty and shipped critically acclaimed titles including BAFTA-nominated CounterSpy (2M+ users) and an Apple-featured mobile hit, blending hands-on systems work with product and business leadership. At Unity he led cross-continental teams to turn R&D into public generative-AI 3D tooling, launched a no-code AR creator in nine months, and managed voice infrastructure at scale for millions of concurrent users. Known for architecting resilient cloud platforms and optimizing engineering organizations, he excels at recruiting, culture-building, and rapid iterative delivery. Comfortable straddling technical depth and strategic vision, he brings a rare mix of console/mobile game engineering, cloud ops, and product-focused execution. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a BSc in Computer Science & AI from Edinburgh, he quietly combines creative studio roots with enterprise-scale platform thinking.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh
German, FrenchProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Unity-Technologies/ReproProjectWizard
Aug 2016 - Sep 2021
Quickly create a new project that contains a small subset of the assets in your full project.
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
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