Steven Garcia
Gameplay Engineer at Bad Robot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Garcia is a Gameplay Engineer with 12 years of software engineering experience who blends strong architectural design skills with hands-on implementation across games and large enterprise systems. He has shipped tools and backend systems at Blizzard Entertainment for Overwatch 2 and now works on gameplay systems at Bad Robot Games, bringing production-grade discipline to game development. His background at ThoughtWorks spans scalable cloud data pipelines, API integrations, and real-time cost modeling, showing comfort with distributed systems, Python, Java/Spring, and cloud orchestration. Early research roles in physics and materials taught him to extract insight from large scientific datasets and build custom analysis pipelines in C/C++ and MATLAB — a signal of rigorous problem-solving beyond typical game engineering. Known as a collaborative communicator, he bridges technical and non-technical teams to deliver complex projects on schedule. Based in Los Angeles, he’s a fast learner who deliberately leverages backend, tooling, and data engineering experience to make gameplay systems more robust and observable.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at International Academy WestBachelor's Degree Physics Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Physics Computer Science at University of Chicago
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
frontend9
rails7
api7
ruby6
mouse3
mouse-events3
touchscreen3
multi-touch2
cms2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Ark3u0/SuperiorSiegeWeapon
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
Ark3u0/learnopengl
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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