Tom Milford
Director of Software Engineering @ Yuga Labs | Hands-on Technical Leader, Ex-Niantic
- Role
- Director of Software Engineering at Yuga Labs
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Director of Software Engineering
May 2025 — Present
Spearheading platform, tooling, and team initiatives across Otherside, focused on reliability, velocity, and developer experience including:• Own code quality and engineering velocity across all internal and external Unreal Engine development on Otherside• Diagnosed and resolved core platform bottlenecks by breaking a monolithic API into modular UE plugins with dependency management, enabling teams to ship content independently and faster• Built a 24/7 international Live Ops function from 0→1 (PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch, Python, REST APIs) to support the Metaverse platform in production• Built a new 0→1 data analysis capability supporting leadership across Yuga and partner studios with insights on Otherside usage and performance• Revamped TeamCity CI/CD, reducing Unreal build times by ~88% using AWS dedicated runners — dramatically improving iteration speed and cross-team collaboration (TeamCity, PowerShell)• Led 0→1 product development of the social layer for Otherside (React, Render.com, CometChat)
Education
Northwestern University
B.S., Computer Science
Skills
- Game Development
- Mobile Devices
- Engineering Leadership
- Gameplay
- Artificial Intelligence
- C
- Mobile Games
- Ios Development
- Ios
- C#
- Computer Graphics
- Game Design
- Software Engineering
- Video Games
- Virtual Reality
- Console
- Augmented Reality
- Unreal Engine 4
- Linux
- Qt
- Scripting
- Opengl
- C
- Programming
- Optimization
- Python
- C++
- Algorithms
- Mobile Applications
- Git
- Game Programming
- Xbox 360
- Unity3d
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