Jordan Foo - Resume

Senior staff software engineer with over thirteen years of experience designing, building, and scaling complex distributed systems, game platforms, and AI-driven content pipelines. Proven track record at Meta, Riot Games, and Amazon, with additional experience as first engineering hire at a venture-backed startup. Adept at translating product vision into technical architecture, leading cross-functional teams, and shipping consumer-facing products to millions of users.

Languages

TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, Go, Python, Bash, JavaScript, C#, SQL

Expertise

Distributed systems, AI-driven content generation, game systems engineering, API design, platform architecture, CI/CD, operational monitoring, cross-functional technical leadership

Techniques

Agile/Scrum, test-driven development, extreme programming, load testing, solutions architecture, third-party evaluation and integration

Tools

AWS, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Grafana, Honeycomb, Buildkite, GitHub, Protobuf, MySQL, Netty, Ktor, Perforce, Linux

Senior Staff Software Engineer

2023 – Present

Meta — Seattle, WA (Remote)

Tech lead on Super Strike, a multi-platform arcade shooter shipped across VR and mobile on Horizon Worlds
Driving development of large-scale AI models that generate interactive content from minimal user prompts, reducing content creation time and expanding creative capabilities across the platform
Architect central platform systems and content logic powering multiple live titles and three prototype games in active development
Serve as primary technical point of contact for all external partner teams spanning art, audio, VFX, and engine APIs
Review and approve creator-facing platform APIs covering navigation meshes, internationalization, asset ingestion, physics simulations, entity lifecycle management, and camera systems
First engineer to prototype and dogfood Meta's next-generation world-building application, delivering critical feedback that shaped editor and runtime design requirements
Designed production and bug-tracking workflows adopted across the studio

Principal Software Engineer

2020 – 2023

Pragma Platform — Seattle, WA (Remote)

Designed and built the core service framework as first engineering hire at a startup that grew to 60+ employees and raised a $22M Series B
Evaluated and integrated third-party identity providers (Auth0, Okta) and observability platforms (Grafana, Honeycomb), serving as technical point of contact for vendor partnerships
Built CI/CD infrastructure and test environments for validation and load testing, powering over 50 customer deployments using Terraform and Pulumi
Managed customer relationships as solutions engineer, translating game design goals into scalable technical architectures
Represented Pragma at GDC 2022, presenting to and building relationships with prospective technical and executive customers

Senior Software Engineer

2014 – 2019

Riot Games — Santa Monica, CA

Owned and led development of control plane services for an internal service mesh, including service discovery, configuration management, metrics, alerting, artifact replication, and deployment tooling
Tech lead for backend distributed services supporting over 100 million monthly players across game flow, inventory, player behavior, competitive, and identity systems
Served on 24/7 on-call rotation for the League of Legends platform team, accountable for global service reliability

Software Engineer

2012 – 2014

Amazon — Seattle, WA & Toronto, ON

Built vendor technology services including chargebacks and ship-window management, deployed to support Amazon's international marketplace operations
Scaled a predictive-demand Monte Carlo simulation ETL by parallelizing the pipeline, reducing runtime for large product categories from 9 days to 3 days