Michael Wan

MICHAEL WAN

GAME DESIGNER

Welcome to my portfolio! I am a game designer with over 5 years of game and tech industry experience, and a passion for all things fun. I am currently developing games independently.

GAMES

My career began at Amazon as a software engineer. Here I was on the passive monitoring team, developing tools to detect network outages across AWS and alarm network engineers immediately if an outage occurs, or is about to occur. I developed tools and dashboards ingesting massive quantities of data with Spark, and various AWS services like EMR, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, DataPipeline, and SQS.

I interned at Heroku for a summer working on the Heroku Dashboard web application working with Ember.js and Ruby. I implemented and helped design the Team Overview which had recently launched for Heroku Teams, and interface that aggregates relevant team metrics into a single space.

ABOUT

Though I began as a software engineer at Amazon, I quickly realized that I'd much rather be making games. I was most recently at Naughty Dog, and have spent a healthy amount of time in between jobs working on personal projects.

I spend a lot of my time making and playing games, but when I'm not, you might find me in some remote location at six in the morning scrambling to take a photo. I am also an occasional musician, music enjoyer/collector, and racket sports player.

I'm currently looking for my next opportunity. If you are interested, please get in touch!