William Chou

Arkadium

Game Developer

September 2010 — present

• Worked in AS3, Flash, C#, XNA at a Facebook and casual game company.
• Lead mobile development on upcoming cross-platform casual titles in partnership with Microsoft.
• Lead frontend development for social game "Writer's Blox", growing from 18K to 300K MAU.
• Lead development on and introduced unit testing to internal AS3 networking API.
• Wrote common components for use in social titles, including flagship "Mahjongg Dimensions Blast" and "Konami Twilight Carnival".
• Wrote HTML5 Canvas minigame prototypes in JavaScript.

FreshPlanet

Game Developer

June 2010 — August 2010

• Worked in AS3, Flash, PHP, JS and Python at a Facebook game startup.
• Lead frontend development for 150K+ DAU flagship game "Crazy Cow Music Quiz."
• Fixed critical backend bugs by improving query performance by, in some cases, over 100x.

Build-It-Yourself

Game Developer Intern

Summer 2009

• Worked in AS3, Flex and PHP at a technology education startup.
• Programming lead of a team of interns building a Flash-based social webapp for children.
• Designed end-to-end stack and contributed over 8,000 LOC.

Buqoo

Developer Intern

Summer 2008

• Worked in Ruby on Rails at a web startup.
• Implemented a reputation system and improved content search and web mapping.
• Responsible for all tech management, i.e. sysadmin in Solaris, deployment, data ETL.

Cornell University Computational Sustainability

Student Game Developer

Fall 2009

• As part of a $10MM NSF Grant, developed "Edutainment" game in C# & XNA in a team of six.
• Designed and implemented fundamental education mechanic teaching linear programming.

Cornell University

M.Eng in Computer Science

February 2010

GPA: 3.7

Cornell University

B.A. in Computer Science

May 2009

GPA: 3.4, Dean's List

Absolute Zero Breakdancing Club

2005 — present

• 2009 Northeast intercollegiate champions.

Cornell CS Teaching Assistant

Fall 2009

• Taught recitation and held office hours for programming course CS1112.