John Werner
Technical Director at Original Fire Games
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJohn Werner is a Technical Director and seasoned game-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building gameplay systems and technical workflows from indie studios to AAA titles. Based in Vancouver, he progressed from co-op roles into gameplay programming on Dawn of War III and Age of Empires IV before leading and now directing engineering at Original Fire Games. He combines deep hands-on coding with design sensibilities—often contributing narrative and programming-language design insights to the games he ships. Known for pragmatically solving hard technical problems, he also brings a maker’s curiosity dating back to a high-school tech support business he ran solo. Outside work he pursues tabletop game design and a fascination with interactive art and cats, which inform his user-first approach to systems and tools.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaGithub contributions (5)
haferflocken/minirpg
Apr 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:217 commits in 3 months
haferflocken/ConductorEngine
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:80 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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