Smart Post Sound's Smartcast: Interviews and discussions with creators in film, television, and gami

Smart Post Sound's Smartcast: Interviews and discussions with creators in film, television, and gami


SPS025: Software Engineer and Lead Programmer at Respawn Entertainment Jon Shiring

October 06, 2016

This week we talk with Jon Shiring - Software Engineer and Lead Engineer at Respawn Entertainment. Jon's credits include shipping the highly anticipated Titanfall 2 (out October 28, 2016), Titanfall, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty 2 and Savage.  He has over 15 years experience in the game industry working on multiplayer titles. As a software engineer Jon has added splitscreen, sprinting, playlists, co-op (via non-blocking lockstep), and matchmaking to Call of Duty, and helped build the cloud server system and handled a significant chunk of the network code for Titanfall. Check out Jon on Twitter! - @jonshiring