Samy Duc
Principal Technical Director at Respawn Entertainment
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamy Duc is a Principal Technical Director in Los Angeles with 15 years of experience shipping multiplayer games and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Respawn Entertainment after earlier networking and online-services work at Microsoft and Ubisoft, bringing deep expertise in game networking, architecture simplicity, maintainability, and debugging. Samy consistently designs systems that balance competitive depth with accessible fun, and he excels at enabling designers while elevating team capability. His background includes security and embedded systems early in his career, giving him a practical, systems-first perspective on reliability and performance. Known for clear communication and creative problem solving, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that scale in live-service environments. Outside work he describes himself simply: he engineers video games for a living and spends his free time on adventures, reflecting a hands-on, curious mindset.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at École de technologie supérieureEngineer's degree Information Technology and Networking, Engineer's degree Information Technology and Networking at Grenoble INP - UGA
French, English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
photon8
language-server8
argon8
xbox-live8
particle8
intellisense7
game-development7
rust7
arduino6
vscode6
apply6
vscode-extension6
data-driven6
game-engine6
open-source5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samyduc/ricklesauceur.github.io
Jul 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
samyduc/rickleclasheur
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 days
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