Siobhan Beeman

About Siobhan Beeman

Siobhan is an industry veteran with over 30 years experience in individual and management roles in both tabletop and computer games. Her career began at Steve Jackson Games, editing the Car Wars line. Moving to computer games, she joined legendary publisher Origin Systems, directing the award-winning Wing Commander II and later serving as Director of Online Technology during Ultima Online. In 2002, she joined Microsoft. As Lead Program Manager, she coordinated server development, security, and billing systems for MSN Games. Later, as Lead Developer, she created a peer-to-peer gaming platform for MSN Instant Messenger and led engineering for the prototyping effort that culminated in Xbox Kinect, work that earned her two US patents.Since that time, she has self-published mobile games, built escape rooms, taught game development and network programming at DigiPen, and been principal engineer at a number of studios. She has often been a guest speaker at professional conferences, including the Game Developers Conference, PAX Dev, and other game industry events.

Experience

1. Industry Mentor

   Realxp Lab

   Feb 2025 — Present

   Providing 1:1 mentoring and code reviews for students in RealXP Labs\' education program.

Skills

• Mobile Games
• Objective-C
• Mmo
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Sql Server
• Databases
• Video Games
• Node.js
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Python
• Scrum
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Mobile Devices
• Computer Games
• C++
• Visual Studio
• Unity3d
• Multiplayer
• Social Games
• Heroku
• Mongodb
• Linux
• Game Development
• Nginx
• C
• Programming
• Software Engineering
• Redis
• C#
• Iphone
• Game Design
• Mobile Applications
• Apache
• Casual Games