Summary
Louis Mccormack is a Senior Build Engineer and seasoned platform leader with nearly two decades of experience building and operating large-scale game backends and critical infrastructure. He has progressed from systems administration to DevOps and Head of Platform roles, combining hands-on development (React, Go) with strategic leadership supporting 15+ engineers across multiple teams. Louis led CI/CD transformations, backwards-compatible deployment projects that saved substantial costs, and initiatives that improved monetization and AB test analysis from hours to seconds. He’s experienced delivering low-latency, massively concurrent multiplayer systems on AWS and has a track record of turning operational challenges into platform features. A regular speaker and writer, he pairs strong software engineering principles with a genuine passion for mentoring teams and translating business needs into technical strategy. Based in London, he brings rare depth across infrastructure, automation, and people management forged in the fast-paced games industry.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer