Joseph Bleau
Senior Software Engineer II at Blizzard Entertainment
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Bleau is a Senior Software Engineer II in Chicago with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems for large enterprises, currently contributing at Blizzard Entertainment. He has deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, cloud platforms, and data integration—designing high-throughput Kafka-based pipelines, Salesforce integrations, and commerce/payment workflows at The Home Depot, FedEx, and Blizzard. Joseph mentors engineers, conducts hiring interviews, and has driven architecture for legacy-to-modern integration layers and mission-critical order/purchase systems. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced backend game-engine logic on the popular flare-engine project, focusing on efficient item storage, attack mechanics, and reducing object churn. Known for pragmatic design and clear runbooks, he combines hands-on coding with operations-minded ownership to deliver observable, supportable systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, (Incomplete), Computer Science, Computer Science, (Incomplete) at Eastern Michigan University
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
logic10
rpg10
2d-game9
2d-engine9
data-structures8
data-structure8
sizeof6
winapi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
flareteam/flare-engine
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the engine's backend functionality, addressing issues related to game logic and data management. Their work includes implementing attack mechanics, optimizing item storage handling, and adding a hit cooldown system. They also corrected initial loading values, and made changes to prevent extra object creation in an initializer list.
rpglibrec-plus-plus2d-game-engineengine
josephbleau/Java-Platform-Fighter
May 2020 - Feb 2025
Platform fighter engine written in Java using LibGdx and Spine.
Contributions:32 PRs, 103 pushes, 37 branches in 4 years 9 months
spinejavafighterlibgdx
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