John Bacon

About John Bacon

I\'m a lifelong gamer and entrepreneur that\'s extremely passionate about engineering emergent social experiences, making great games, and creating massive scale businesses. I also have a passion for social impact and social entrepreneurship, desiring to measure business success by more than just revenue.I’m currently at Roblox working on the next generation of tech for the Roblox app. Before that, I was at Zynga, where I shipped Words With Friends 2 and migrated the Words With Friends client to React Native.Skills- Luau / Lua development, 5+ years experience- C++ development, 5+ years experience- iOS development, 10+ years experience (Swift and Objective C)- TypeScript / JavaScript development, 1+ years experience- React Native development on both iOS and Android at scale, 1+ years experience- Android development, 4+ years experience (Java)- Strong object oriented design and architecture skills- Entrepreneurial background - co-founded a mobile game company and a social impact company- Strong consumer product background - worked on mobile games and consumer apps- Apple Watch development, 2+ years experience- DynamoDB + AWS Lambda, 2+ years experience

Experience

1. Technical Director

   Roblox

   Oct 2024 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Working on app client architecture

Education

• Boston College

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Mysql
• Git
• Object Oriented Design
• Game Design
• Sql
• Java Application Development
• Iphone Application Development
• Objective-C
• Android
• Java