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Jack Bridges - Senior Software Engineer in Brier, WA

Jack Bridges

Senior Software Engineer specializing in game platforms and player-facing systems

NetflixBrier, WA27 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks Remote

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Senior engineer with a rare mix of game-platform and mobile content-delivery experience: helped ship the Xbox 360 Party system and later architected the custom multi-catalog asset pipeline behind Netflix Stories. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can design scalable, low-memory, high-stability systems for live content across many titles and external partners.

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Key Strengths

  • Owned end-to-end architecture of a custom Unity asset management system
  • Led a team of three through scoping, design, implementation, and delivery
  • Deep expertise modifying and forking Unity Addressables for production needs
  • Strong mobile optimization instincts for memory footprint and load times
  • Built scalable multi-title content architecture supporting 15+ live titles and stress tested to 100
  • Delivered app size constraints suitable for mobile by avoiding multi-gigabyte bundling
  • Achieved chapter transitions of only a few seconds on low-end Android devices
  • Designed systems that enabled strong team isolation for third-party studios under NDA
  • Produced highly stable post-launch framework with few system-level bugs
  • Experience shipping platform-scale multiplayer features at Xbox
  • Telemetry-driven approach to diagnosing live issues at scale
  • Pragmatic, honest evaluation of AI/LLM use in production pipelines

Reference Highlights

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  • end-to-end ownership of asset bundle systems
  • architected and shipped high-impact content delivery systems
  • enabled release of multiple products
  • built scalable live-service architecture
  • delivered eight post-launch story updates on Netflix Stories
  • built Squid Game Unleashed asset delivery pipeline from the ground up
  • maintained systems after launch
  • continued supporting prior team while on a new project
  • stable engineering output
  • improved iteration speed and documentation with AI
  • de-risked long-term project maintenance
  • created documentation usable by third-party takeover team
  • go-to engineer across production, design, and art
  • strong cross-functional communication
  • translated technical work for non-engineering partners
  • owned final delivery and follow-up changes

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Experience

Senior Software EngineerNetflix · Oct 2021 – Nov 2025
Senior Software EngineerDoubleDown Interactive · Oct 2012 – Mar 2021
Senior Software EngineerPopCap Games · Oct 2011 – Sep 2012
Software EngineerMicrosoft · Nov 2006 – Sep 2012
Lead Software EngineerFileNet · Nov 1997 – Nov 2006

Languages

English

Publications

1 publication

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Jack BridgesSenior Software Engineer specializing in game platforms and player-facing systems