Jay Lauffer

Jay Lauffer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Games

  • Education

    • University of Tampa

      1994 - 1995
      Creative Writing
    • Orange Coast College

      2014 - 2015
      Computer Science
  • Experience

    • SafeNet Consulting

      Jan 1997 - Jan 1998
      Software Engineer
    • Datex-Ohmeda

      Jan 2002 - Jan 2003
      Software Engineer
    • Loadngo business solutions LLC

      Aug 2003 - Dec 2004
      Senior Solutions Engineer

      Building a time and task management utility which is now been made open source, development of loadngo Task is still on-going.

    • Weather Central Inc

      Dec 2004 - May 2005
      Software Developer

      Worked with the team to implement rendering of clouds, wrote a pixel shader program for rendering the live doppler. Technologies involved were Windows, Win32, OpenGL, and NVidia.

    • Nexiant

      Jul 2005 - May 2008
      Senior Software Engineer

      At the onset worked to port existing WinCE 3.0 application to WinCE 4.0 for an embedded device. Moved into development of the Enterprise Search product, and the platform shift of the SIM product to ASP.net.

    • Blizzard Entertainment

      Jan 2008 - Jun 2016
      Senior Software Engineer II

      Building technology between the game and the players to let players play and making it possible for multiple teams to delight millions of players with their creativity.

    • Riot Games

      Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
      Team Builder

      Serving the engineering discipline every way I can.

    • Snail Digital

      Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
      Principle Software Engineer

      Product research and development for PC, Console, and Mobile games.

    • Improbable

      Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
      Senior Software Engineer
    • Scopely

      Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
      Techinal Director
    • Mayhem Studios

      Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
      Tech Director (interim)
    • Gaming

      Apr 2024 - now
      Consultant
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4

      Sun Educational Services
      Apr 2004