Samuel Loretan
Principal Software Engineer, R&D Tech Lead at Riot Games
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorSamuel Loretan is a Principal Software Engineer and R&D Tech Lead with 15+ years designing and shipping game and real-time systems, currently helping Riot evolve its products toward truly social "Games". He brings deep client-server, networking and optimization expertise from roles at Riot, ArenaNet (server programming for Guild Wars 2), Ubisoft (Technical Director on therapeutic game O.zen) and Ankama (lead client developer for DOFUS). A self-taught developer since childhood, he is fluent across C/C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, SQL and has a strong track record in architectural leadership, peer-to-peer systems and ergonomic game interfaces. Samuel also contributes to open-source tooling—improving Errbot’s Slack backend and plugin ordering—which underscores his pragmatic focus on maintainability and integrations. Based in Santa Monica, he pairs systems-level rigor with a persistent interest in game design, social interactions and community dynamics that inform his technical decisions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (17)
python10
automation10
slack10
automations10
unit-test10
chatbot10
windows-xp9
plugin-development9
chatops8
html6
flash6
bytecode6
apache-flex6
unicode6
actionscript6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
errbotio/errbot
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Errbot is a chatbot, a daemon that connects to your favorite chat service and bring your tools and some fun into the conversation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to improving the Slack backend integration of the Errbot chatbot. They fixed bugs related to parsing Slack identifiers, built and tested the `build_identifier` function, and addressed channel mentions. In addition, the user implemented a configuration-based plugin callback ordering feature, enhancing the flexibility of the chatbot's plugin system. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing core functionality and maintainability.
chatopschatbotspythondevopsdaemon
tynril/rgoap
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
A simple Rust implementation of Orkin's Goal-Oriented Action-Planning.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
incrementalgoalrustsatgoal-oriented-action-planning
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