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Nigel Budden

@nigelbudden

I build scalable multiplayer, backend, and LiveOps systems for online games.

United Kingdom
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I've spent 20+ years shipping online games and real-time platforms, including work at Blizzard Entertainment, Genies, and Magnopus.

At Genies, I built real-time multiplayer avatar systems in Unity with Photon Fusion, including runtime avatar spawning and cross-network animation synchronisation.

At Blizzard, I led the four-person AI & bots team for the shipped live-service mobile title Warcraft Rumble, building bot behaviour systems and in-engine tools that helped designers create and preview bot actions.

At Magnopus, I architected ExpoXplorer backend services for Expo 2020 Dubai, load-tested to 16,000+ concurrent users, and built LiveOps systems across AWS, RabbitMQ, Redis, and MongoDB. I'm also a named inventor on granted US Patent 12,569,755.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

GE

Senior Gameplay Engineer

Genies

Nov 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 5 months)

Built real-time multiplayer avatar systems in Unity with Photon Fusion, including runtime avatar spawning and cross-network animation synchronisation. Integrated the avatar SDK with backend services to improve caching and local avatar interaction performance.

MI

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Minetec

Jun 2017 - Oct 2017 (4 months)

Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at Minetec.

IN

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Integranet

Nov 2015 - Jun 2017 (1 year 7 months)

Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at Integranet.

CE

Senior Software Engineer

Conducive / Empired

Jul 2007 - Oct 2015 (8 years 3 months)

Senior Software Engineer at Conducive / Empired.

EL

Senior Software Engineer

ERG Ltd

Sep 2004 - Jul 2007 (2 years 10 months)

Senior Software Engineer at ERG Ltd.

Edith Cowan University logoEU

Research Support Engineer

Edith Cowan University

Nov 2002 - Sep 2004 (1 year 10 months)

Research Support Engineer at Edith Cowan University.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Edith Cowan University logoEU

Edith Cowan University

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.

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