Anthony Pressacco

Work History

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  Lead Programmer

  Eidos Montreal

  May 2015 - August 2016

  Creating awesome systems for awesome games!
  ● Implemented and lead the agile principles of development
  ● Staffing, mentoring and career development of our team employees
  ● Risk assessment & mitigation
  ● Spearheaded the optimization of several internal pipelines
  ● Full stack programmer
  ● Lead the systems team in shipping three games on 11 different platforms
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  Senior Network Engineer

  Eidos Montreal

  June 2013 - July 2015

  Montreal Area, Canada

  ● Full stack programmer
  ● Developed online services for first party and proprietary systems
  ● Gameplay systems including such systems as persistence, security, and serialization
  ● Extended the build pipeline to support building on 11 different platforms
  ● Optimized the analytics pipeline reducing setup time for standard metrics from 4 months to 1 day
  ● Spearheaded the first live tools platform supporting such tools as player mgt, leader boards, etc.
  ● Developed for iOS, Android, Steam, Oculus, Amazon, Windows Phone, Windows Store, XOne
  
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  Senior Network Engineer

  Eidos Montreal

  March 2013 - June 2013

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Unannounced Title, Next-Gen Console
  
  - Online game services (telemetry, AB testing, leaderboards, microtransactions)
  - Distribution system for externalized game data
  - Game server architecture and programming

• Systems Engineer

  Sava Transmedia

  January 2012 - March 2013

  Montreal, Canada Area

  
  Treasure Tower Sprint - iOS/Android
  
  • Self initiated and single handily took this game from 22FPS to 60FPS by switching game engines
  • Re-engineered the isometric grid layering system to be more intuitive and usable
  • Re-engineered the data driven UI system to use a MVC pattern and increase productivity
  • Re-engineered the data driven UI Factory pattern to use reflection and increase flexibility
  • Sprite rendering
  

• Backend Operations Lead

  Sava Transmedia

  January 2012 - March 2013

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Rubber Tacos - iOS/Android
  
  • Server engineering using AWS, Windows Server 2008, Unix, Unix Shell, VM, and SSH, capable of servicing a million DAU with the ability to scale within minutes
  • RESTful web services architecture
  • Web engineering using FB API, OAuth, JSON, JS, HTML, Flash, Tomcat, JQuery, J2EE, and Apache
  • Database engineering using Redis, MySQL, and block storage servicing 100+ million monthly
  • Server stress testing to determine bottlenecks and load limits
  • Lead software engineer for game server authentication system, telemetry, and internal console
  • Other engineering tasks include pipelining, game API feature development, and multi-threading
  • Mentor for junior team members
  • Task assignment and reviews

• Senior Business Intelligence Programmer

  Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

  November 2008 - December 2011

  Ottawa, Canada Area

  
  · Led a team of 4 Business Intelligence programmers for the IBM Cognos platform
  supporting 1500 users.
  · SQL development and optimization for OLTP/OLAP servers (SQL Server)
  · SQL normalization and denormalization (SQL Server)
  · Standardization and process optimization of data migrations and ETL processes
  · Scripting for environment automation (MSDOS, C++, Perl, UNIX Shell)
  · Software development of the Business Intelligence central portal (ASP)
  · Software development for a internal task tracking system (OO ASP.NET)
  Anthony Pressacco
  

• Business Intelligence Programmer

  Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

  April 2006 - February 2008

  Ottawa, Canada Area

  
  · Promoted to lead within one year.
  · Developed a internal staffing portal for DFAIT's human resources (OO ASP.NET)
  · Automation of report distribution system (VB Macros, Perl, MSDOS)
  · Data transformation and ETL development (OO Cognos Data Stream/Data Manager)
  · Internal request portal for reports (OO ASP.NET)
  

• CEO and CTO

  TradeBug Inc

  January 2003 - June 2006

  
  · Headed an e-commerce classified ads start-up. Sold to UsedEverywhere.com in 2006
  · Developed site modules using JAVA J2SE servlets, Mysql, and FreeBSD Unix
  

• Software Developer

  Standard Radio Toronto

  January 2002 - December 2002

  Toronto, Canada Area

  
  - Process automation development
  - Feature development for backend portal
  

• Software Developer

  CHUM Radio Ottawa

  January 1999 - December 2001

  Toronto, Canada Area

  
  · Audio stream interface using Flash (Adobe Flash/ActionScript 1.0)
  · System monitors for 500+ channels (ASP, JavaScript)
  · Application performance monitors to analyze the channels.
  · Back-end web portal developer for CHUM Radio's 27 high traffic websites (ASP)
  
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  Eidos Interactive

  ? - Present