Jonathan Walker
Founder Design Director at Driftless North LLC
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Walker is a Staff Designer with a decade of experience architecting scalable combat and progression systems for AAA live-service titles across ARPGs, MMOs, and shooters. He combines high-level design intent with hands-on technical implementation, having set gameplay "gold standards" at Activision, Riot, and ZeniMax and helped design the systems behind COD: Warzone’s $1.9B launch year. Known for creating high-impact modes like Prop Hunt and serving as VALORANT’s sole Competitive Designer at hire, he excels at aligning cross-discipline teams to ship polished, competitive-feeling gameplay. Jonathan also runs a consultancy that rapidly establishes production-ready combat foundations and tooling for studios on tight timelines. A former professional esports player and world-first MMORPG guild leader, he brings deep player empathy and an analytical approach to player motivation and retention. Based in Madison, WI, he’s an early adopter of AI prototyping practices to realistically accelerate iteration while preserving design quality.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Madison Area Technical CollegeLa Follette High SchoolArmed Sentry/Security Reaction Force - AdvancedRecruit Training United States Navy
Github Skills (42)
fingerprint10
security10
dsl9
security-scanner9
vulnerability-detection9
vulnerability-assessment9
vulnerabilities9
vulnerability-scanners8
backend8
yaml8
pandora8
mysql7
monitoring7
dns7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DevSecOpsDocs/terraform-nuclear-pond
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Backend for Nuclear Pond
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 20 days
backend
jonathanwalker/terraform-modules
Dec 2022 - Feb 2024
Personal terraform modules repository.
Contributions:16 PRs, 267 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 2 months
terraform-module
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