Resume

Ryan C. Scott

Experience

  • CTO/Co-Founder Owlized, 2016.12 - present
    • UC Berkeley SkyDeck alumnus
    • Dictate the architecture and design of VR stack
    • Investor pitches both privately and at events
    • Built the monitoring and build systems
    • Develop our VR video player in C/C++/Lua
    • Develop surrounding infrastructure in Python
  • Independent Developer Vicarious Living, 2010.04 - present
    • Developing a game engine in C/C++/Lua
    • 3D, glsl shaders, audio synthesis via PureData, custom particle scripting language, PhysX
    • Protobuf data files
    • ZeroMQ tool backbone/architecture
    • Bootstrapping features with game prototypes
  • Gameplay & Prototyping Engineer ToyTalk/PullString, 2016.01 - 2016.07
    • Created many small prototypes with a focus on voice interaction as a primary game element
    • Worked closely with other disciplines to iterate on concepts and address technical challenges
  • Senior Gameplay Engineer KIXEYE, 2013.03 - 2015.06
    • Shipped TOME: Immortal arena, a free-to-play MOBA in Unity3D/C#
    • Worked on Battle Pirates, a web-based RTS
  • Game Engineer Disney Mobile, 2012.03 - 2013.03
    • Worked on 2 iterations of a mobile builder game for the Seven Dwarfs in Unity and an internal-engine
    • Worked on several pre-greenlight prototypes
    • Built and maintained several content and build tools
  • Gameplay Programmer TouchFactor, 2010.05 - 2012.02
    • Developed the most advanced pet fish game ever
    • Created tools for artists and animators, developed the content pipeline
  • Founder/Lead Developer Squeaky Cow, 2009.01 - 2011.06
    • Developed a pirate game in Unity
    • Implemented developer tools, AI and gameplay systems
  • Developer WhiteHat Security, 2008.01 - 2009.01
    • Worked on the interface to Sentinel, WhiteHat’s security scanning system
  • Systems Administrator WhiteHat Security, 2007.01 - 2008.01
    • Designed and implemented network services; VPN, email/calendaring, PBX, database, virtualized developer environments, etc.
    • 50+ remote/local users
  • Owner/Lead Developer TenHex, 2006.03 - 2006.12
    • Developed wirelessly controlled, LED-based lighting solutions
    • Developed the control protocol and tools for interfacing with other standards (MIDI and others)
    • Wrote the firmware for the devices in C
  • Consultant Verisign/Guardent, 2003.11 - 2006.03
    • Network and web application security scans
    • Worked with US Bank identifying and taking down fraudulent bank sites and phishing scams
  • Developer VLIT, 2003.04 - 2003.11
    • Worked with Ted Nelson (inventor of the Hypertext concept and Project Xanadu) to develop VLIT, a next generation Hypertext application that embodied the concepts of project Xanadu
  • Developer Rezkey/TEN Online Advanced Services, 2002.02 - 2003.04
    • Developed a hotel booking system in .Net/C#
  • Systems Administrator/Developer Imagesmith, 2000.09 - 2001.10
    • Responsible for servers, workstations, network hardware, and overall network operation
    • Developed intranets for Imagesmith and Extreme Networks in PHP and JSP respectively

Skills

Languages: C/C++/C#, Python, Perl, Lua, Java, VB, Lisp, Shell Scripting, GLSL, PHP, JavaScript, SQL

Networking: TCP/IP, VPN (IPSEC, PPTP, SSL), wi-fi (high-availability setups), security scanning (Nessus, web scanners), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)

Tools: Visual Studio, XCode, version control (git, hg, svn, p4), gdb, premake/genie, cmake

Certifications: MCSE, MCP+I for NT 4, CISSP

Platforms: Windows, OSX, Linux