Lex Chesler

About

Game engineering leader/player-coach who recently shipped Netflix/Boss Fight’s mobile hit Squid Games Unleashed, owning live ops scheduling (XML/JSON to C# in Unity) and storefront integrations while reviewing 6–8 engineers’ code. Experienced in client-server reliability work (The Sims 4 time-sync incident) and in speeding delivery via process redesign (gated approvals), with a coaching style informed by 6 years teaching improv theater.

Experience

Key Strengths

• Shipped top-downloaded mobile title (Squid Games Unleashed) with end-to-end ownership
• Designed and implemented live ops event scheduler and storefront integrations
• Strong data/compatibility problem-solving (version translation for legacy/ghost live ops events)
• Technical leadership with significant code review responsibility (reviewed 6–8 engineers)
• Player-coach leadership balancing management (60%) and hands-on engineering (40%)
• Improved reliability by diagnosing client-server time sync issue and making server authoritative
• Effective stakeholder management and scoping ambiguous product requests into shippable solutions
• Introduced gated review process to increase delivery speed and catch errors earlier
• Coaching approach that improved underperformers; one engineer improved enough to receive a retention bonus
• Culture and morale improvement by reducing meeting load and mediating cross-team friction