Nathaniel Von Sprecken
Senior System Engineer at 2K
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Von Sprecken is a Senior System Engineer with nine years of experience building game and platform systems for studios including Red Storm Entertainment and 2K, and earlier engineering stints at Microsoft spanning Mixer, Windows core, and video streaming work. He combines gameplay-focused systems design with low-level systems engineering, having progressed from gameplay engineer to lead roles and now shaping infrastructure at a major publisher. Comfortable across C, C++, and scripting environments, he has a track record of shipping features and stabilizing complex live services. A former Dean’s list computer science student who continued studies at UNC, he pairs formal CS training with hands-on production experience. Nathaniel’s background at both consumer streaming and multiplayer game studios gives him a nuanced view of performance, latency, and live ops that many engineers lack. He’s known for proactively learning new domains and translating that curiosity into reliable, scalable system improvements.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachlor of Science, Computer Science, Mathmatics, Bachlor of Science, Computer Science, Mathmatics at Western Carolina UniversityEnloe High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (7)
gateway6
mixer6
sctp5
janus5
development-kit4
webrtc4
janus-gateway3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
mixer/janus-gateway
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Janus WebRTC Gateway
Contributions:80 commits, 325 pushes, 19 branches in 3 months
janus-gatewaywebrtcgatewayjanus-webrtc-gatewaysctp
microsoft/ftl-sdk
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Software Development Kit for Mixer's FTL Protocol
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 days
development-kitsoftware-development-kitftlmixer
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