Brian Neal

Current

Software Engineer III at Electronic Arts

Past

Lead Database Software Engineer at Flagship Studios / Ping0
Senior Editor / Publisher at aceshardware.com
Programmer at Communications Engineering Technology, Inc.

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Brian Neal’s Summary

Lead Database Software Engineer at Ping0 / FSS. Designed and implemented the persistence system for Hellgate: London and Mythos, and achieved record-breaking performance and concurrency in a single-shard.

Brian Neal’s Specialties:

Server Architecture, Database Design, High Performance Caching Systems

C/C++, .NET/C#, Java
SQL Server 2005, Sybase ASE, Oracle

Brian Neal’s Experience

Software Engineer III

Electronic Arts

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

I'm an engineer on an exciting new project at EA.
Lead Database Software Engineer

Flagship Studios / Ping0

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

July 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 1 month)

I was the Lead Database Software Engineer at Flagship Studios. I designed the persistence system for Hellgate: London and Mythos. This system has delivered record-breaking performance and concurrency levels in real-world deployments -- 68,000 concurrent users all on a single shard. I was also closely involved in a wide-array of multiplayer game systems, from core services to social/community game features and online payment systems.
Senior Editor / Publisher

aceshardware.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

May 1998 — March 2005 (6 years 11 months)

I founded and ran this leading online technology publication. Aceshardware.com published top-notch computing and techology reviews, with a particular specialty in enterprise server evaluation and testing. My responsibilities included managing the company and its editorial staff, business arrangements, producing and supervising content, and much more. I was fortunate to have one of the best teams in the business and I am incredibly proud of the results we produced over the better part of a decade in online publishing.
Programmer

Communications Engineering Technology, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 11 months)

I started out as a young programmer working for an engineering firm doing lots of interesting scientific application development. This is also where I started designing high-performance, highly-scalable database architectures, something that remains a great interest to me 10 years on.