{"id":11,"date":"2007-08-30T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriknovales.azurewebsites.net\/about\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T02:00:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T06:00:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-478 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/eriknovales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Erik-Novales-1b-small.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Erik Novales\" width=\"377\" height=\"528\" \/>I&#8217;m Erik Novales. I used to work at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> as a software engineer, working on distributed, highly scalable backend services. Before that, I worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/\">Netflix<\/a> as an SDET on the streaming video clients for game consoles. Before <em>that<\/em>, I worked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsidianent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obsidian Entertainment<\/a> for quite a long time as a programmer. I architected the toolset for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/nwn2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neverwinter Nights 2<\/a>, did a bunch of assorted work on the game itself (having worked on it for more than two years), and also worked on the\u00a0cancelled Aliens RPG (published by Sega) before I left the company for a while. I later\u00a0returned to Obsidian, and\u00a0worked on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dungeon_Siege_III\">Dungeon Siege III<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallout:_New_Vegas\">Fallout: New Vegas<\/a>, as well as\u00a0some unreleased titles, and a very\u00a0small amount on what eventually became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Park:_The_Stick_of_Truth\">South Park: The Stick of Truth<\/a>.\u00a0Before that, I worked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totallygames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Totally Games<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_Bridge_Commander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star Trek: Bridge Commander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secret_Weapons_Over_Normandy\">Secret Weapons Over Normandy<\/a>. And before <em>that<\/em>, I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southern Methodist University<\/a>, graduating magna cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Math. That&#8217;s probably far enough into the past with my life story. If you want that life history in an easily-shareable format, you can use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eriknovales\/\">my LinkedIn profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/enovales\">a few projects up on GitHub<\/a>, the most interesting of which is probably <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/enovales\/LudumLinguarum\">Ludum Linguarum<\/a> &#8211; a tool for extracting localized content from games, and turning it into language learning flash cards for use with spaced repetition software like Anki.<\/p>\n<p>My interests are pretty varied, and range from things you would expect given my work history (computers and programming, computer and video games), to things further afield (travel, World War II history, indie and British rock, and sports of nearly every type). I am married to my lovely wife Sandy, and we have two amazing daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Erik Novales. I used to work at Twitter as a software engineer, working on distributed, highly scalable backend services. Before that, I worked at Netflix as an SDET on the streaming video clients for game consoles. Before that, I worked at Obsidian Entertainment for quite a long time as a programmer. I architected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}