Courtland Alves
Game Lead
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Industry
- Computer Software
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Courtland Alves's Overview
- Current
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- Game Lead, Happy Aquarium at Crowdstar
- Past
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- Engineering Contractor at Technorati Media
- Software Engineer at Technorati Media
- Software Engineer at intouch group, inc.
- Software Engineer at Delivery Agent
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Courtland Alves's Summary
With over five years in web and mobile application development, I enjoy the challenge of creating a passionate team that creates revolutionary products.
Specialties
Product Management, Project Management, Software Engineering, User Experience Design, System Architecture Design, Metric Driven Design Verification, Iterative Feature Development
Courtland Alves's Experience
Game Lead, Happy Aquarium
Crowdstar
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry
January 2010 – Present (2 years 1 month)
• Direct a team of 10 developers, artists and community moderators that collectively operate Happy Aquarium, available on Facebook and other social networks
• Increased Happy Aquarium’s market-share by 50%, making it the top game in its category with over a million daily users
• Responsible for the inception, cost-benefit analysis, scheduling, design, implementation, monetization, optimization, and support of all game features to maximize user retention, conversion rate, and yield
• Serve as chief architect, responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of a scalable server architecture handling over 8 million users a day
• Primary product and engineering contact for nine business partnerships and ports to eight different platforms in ten different languages
Engineering Contractor
Technorati Media
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
May 2009 – December 2009 (8 months)
• Performed engineering duties using Python, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and CSS
• Designed and implemented the front and back-end of a web-based site management system used to monitor blog meta-information using the Zend Framework and interfacing with Solr and SQL servers
• Created python scripts to maintain data integrity over these systems
• Involved in design of extremely high capacity and highly scalable distributed systems
Software Engineer
Technorati Media
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
May 2008 – September 2008 (5 months)
• Designed and developed internal trouble shooting tools using PHP, SQL and JavaScript
• Created products integrating Spread, Thrift, REST services, Lucene Indices, and Perl and Python
Software Engineer
intouch group, inc.
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry
May 2007 – September 2007 (5 months)
• Designed and implemented RESTful API using Ruby on Rails and architecture for a mobile widget engine enabling internal and third party widget development
• Created an end-to-end mobile e-mail solution designed for intermittent connectivity
• Initiated migration from PHP/Waterfall development to Ruby on Rails/SCRUM development
Software Engineer
Delivery Agent
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry
May 2006 – September 2006 (5 months)
• Enhanced server-side e-commerce websites using PHP, Zend, and MySQL
• Created an on-the-fly image resizing and caching module used for all images on the site
• Developed a search mechanism to provide quicker search times than MySQL using Lucene
• Hired, trained and supervised new hires
Courtland Alves's Education
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Computer Science and Engineering
2005 – 2009
Completed coursework in software engineering, database systems, operating systems, compiler theory, technical communication, Java, C, algorithms, machine architecture and electrical engineering
Activities and Societies: Delta Kappa Epsilon
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