Salvador Llamas Jr

Summary

DevOps/Software Engineer with a Computer Science degree and an MBA with over a decade of professional software development experience across DevOps, mobile development, backend development, artificial intelligence, and games/simulations development.

Professional Experience

Blackberry/Cylance - Irvine, CA
(October 2019 - Now)

Senior DevOps Engineer - Deploying infrastructure for various services. Duties included:

• Deploying infrastructure/services with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, Fargate, ECS, Docker, Jenkins.
• Migrating Filebeat/ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana stacks to managed OpenSearch.
• Server configuration with Puppet/Bash/Powershell.
• Upgrading and stabilizing the Artifactory EKS clusters.

Projects Shipped

• CylanceENDPOINT - A machine learning based End Point Protection.

Zwift - Long Beach, CA
(March 2017 - October 2019)

Software Engineer - Working on client side desktop and mobile game development. Duties included:

• 3D Gameplay programming in C++.
• UI programming in C++.
• Graphical effects with OpenGL.
• iOS/TVOS/MacOS programming with Objective-C.

Projects Shipped

• Zwift - A Massively Multiplayer Online biking and exercise game released for Windows/MacOS/iOS.

Glu Mobile - Long Beach, CA
(May 2015 - March 2017)

Software Engineer - Working on client side mobile game development and backend game development. Duties included:

• Gameplay programming in Unity3D/C#.
• UI Programming with UGUI and NGUI.
• Debugging back end code made with Java/Jetty/Mongo/MySQL/Memcached/Redis.
• Debugging multiplayer gameplay made with Photon.

Projects Shipped

• Racing Rivals - A street racing game for Android and iOS.
• Katy Perry Pop - A Kim Kardashian style game for Android and iOS.

Blind Squirrel Games - Santa Ana, CA
(September 2013 – November 2014)

Software Engineer - Working on projects outsourced to the company and internal projects. Duties included:

• Fixing issues with CryEngine C++ code and CryFX shaders.
• Adding custom features to the CryEngine graphics rendering pipeline and editor.
• Game play and UI programming with Scaleform and Phyre Engine.
• Localization with the Unreal Engine 3.
• Making builds for Steam, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
• Prototyping with Unreal Engine 4.

Projects Shipped

• Evolve - An asymmetric multiplayer shooter released for PC/XB1/PS4.
• Bioshock Infinite : The Complete Edition - A first person shooter released for PC/PS3/360.

Trigger Happy Games - West Hollywood, CA
(February 2013 - July 2013)

Game Programmer - Making iPad and browser games using Unity3D and Javascript. Duties included:

• Writing the game play and UI code using C#.
• Creating database client/server interfaces to collect data from games.
• Prototyping browser based games with cocos2D.

Projects Shipped

• Fuel Hunt - A puzzle game made for the iPad for use in a trade show.

Milk Mug Publishing - West Hollywood, CA
(July 2010 - July 2011)

Lead Game Designer and Software Engineer - Directing the designing, planning, scheduling, and programming of the mobile game published by the company. Duties included:

• Creating the design documents for the game.
• Coding the entire source code required for the game to run using C++/OpenGL/Objective-C.
• Running QA sessions for the game software.

Projects Shipped

• Nerd Girls - A puzzle game made for the iOS to promote a children’s book.

Experienced With

Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate, Helm, Terraform, Docker, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Kibana, Linux, Bash, Powershell, Git, OpenSSL/PKI, NGINX, Prometheus, Grafana, Go/GoLang, C/C++, Java, Spring, C#, Unity3D, Unreal Engine, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Mongo, ActionScript, Objective-C, Python, OpenGL, Vulkan, SDL, NGUI, UGUI, iOS SDK, Android SDK/NDK, QT, Boost, OpenAL, Direct3D11, Photon, Scaleform, Cocos2D

Education

Master of Business Administration (Fall 2021) - CSULB, Long Beach CA - CSULB GPA 3.42
BS in Computer Science (Fall 2012) - CSULB, Long Beach CA - CSULB GPA 3.18

Awards, Affiliations, Certifications, and Side Projects

Leader of The Year, CSULB College of Engineering Student Council (2012)
Affiliations:

• Association for Computing Machinery - Performed marketing and organization design.
• Association for Computing Machinery : Women in Computing - Helped start an ACM-W chapter by helping with marketing and organization design.
• Tau Beta Pi - California Theta Chapter - Served as webmaster.
• Mexican American Engineers and Scientists - Assisted with various outreach events.
• Beta Gamma Sigma - Inducted in 2018.
• Associated Engineering Student Body (CSULB College of Engineering Senate) - Served as webmaster and guided the organization when half of the executive board resigned.

Certifications:

• AWS System Architect : Associate (September 2021)
• Bloomberg Market Concepts (December 2021) Certification ID: yHsG7zQ223TEuux76zb6uz4x

Side Projects:

• Physics Simulator - A 2D rigid body simulator make from scratch (including vector/matrix/physics/collision detection/contact resolution).
• Dreamcast Homebrew Game - A simple 3D game ported to the Dreamcast as part of a school project.
• OpenGL/Vulkan sandbox - A sandbox project for doing graphical demos.