What Happened?
Seattle, WA-based PlayFab Promoted Matt Augustine as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
PlayFab’s mission is to power the future of live games by providing developers and publishers with the best liveops platform in the industry. Game developers shouldn’t need to worry whether their servers can scale, or which of the ten SDKs they’re trying to use broke the build. With PlayFab, they don’t have to. We tell game developers, “you bring the fun, we’ll do the rest.” PlayFab recently received Series A funding from Benchmark and Madrona Venture Group, so we’re about to enter a period of rapid expansion in both our team and our ambitions. New hires should expect to hit the ground running and make significant contributions from day one. We’re not the kind of start-up with a kegerator; we’re the kind where everyone is super productive and then goes home on time.
About the Person
Matt Augustine is the original creator and architect of PlayFab, back when it was still a part of Uber Entertainment. He transferred to PlayFab when it was spun out, and continues to oversee all design and engineering of the core services. He cut his teeth at Microsoft, where he worked on several large-scale projects including docs.com, a site for creating and sharing Microsoft Office documents on Facebook, Live Mesh, a product for synchronizing and sharing files and folders in the cloud, and the account system for Messenger and Hotmail, a system that he helped scale from zero to over 250 million users with minimal downtime. And speaking of downtime, he has none. But if he did, it would go directly to his wife and son.
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