# Al Anich

> Staff Software Engineer on Riot Games MMO

Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alanich

You can call me Al...

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Riot Games
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Monica, California, United States
Working on MMO

Previously:
● Tech Lead for Gameplay Modes Team of an unannounced Action Multiplayer Game in Unreal 5. The team
consisted of 4 Engineers and 4 Designers, where we worked closely to build out gameplay systems together
● Prototyped and executed on new innovations within the game that lead to overwhelmingly positive playtest
results, leading to highest scores the game has ever scored in it’s testing history
● Contributed to improving engineering process of the game team by introducing better processes – such as a
TDD & Review structure – while also mentoring individual contributors to grow them into better engineers
● Previously Software Engineer on the Production Engineering team for the Award Winning TCG “Legends of
Runeterra”, performing build, tooling and core technical contributions in Unity

### Senior Software Engineer @ Riot Games
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Riot Games
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ The Walt Disney Company
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead the front end engineering effort for the Storyscape narrative game using Unity, C#, Typescript and React.

* Optimized content tooling used by Writers, Directors and QA
* Architected UI code structure of Content Portal in Storyscape
* Created native iOS & Android platform integrations (including payment and ratings)
* Wrote server-side functions to vertically integrate features in the game end-to-end

### Software Engineer @ The Walt Disney Company
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California

### Lead Software Engineer @ WealthFit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Kailua, HI
• Worked closely with product manager and designer to deliver features, marketing assets
• Lead a team of developers to refactor and tame an undocumented codebase
• Designed internal Elixir libraries for integrating multiple third-party services

### Software Engineer @ Comprendio
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Honolulu, HI
• Designed a natural-language processing microservice for analyzing and parsing text, deployed through AWS Lambda
• Refactored a front-end web-application to a modern React/Redux architecture, increasing performance of the site and allowing quicker development cycles
• Managed Kubernetes and Docker deployment strategies to enable continuous deployment

### Software Engineer (Contract) @ Goma Games
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Honolulu, HI
• Developed a hybrid mobile app with the Ionic and Cordova frameworks
• Worked closely with designer to ensure vision of the app was created to specification
• Created custom AngularJS directives to adhere to a component-based front-end architecture

### Co Founder @ Narlix Entertainment
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Honolulu, HI
Narlix Entertainment was a company started with the aim to create digital experiences accessible to all types of people. We created a handful of apps that collectively garnered over a hundred thousand downloads, specializing in simple mobile games that were challenging and fun.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anichale

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Source: https://flows.cv/alanich
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alanich/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22