Conan Exiles

Funcom - Gameplay Programmer (Gameplay & Backend)

Conan Exiles | PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
Developed and maintained gameplay systems in Unreal Engine C++ for a large-scale survival MMO with millions of players.
Owned and implemented backend-integrated gameplay features, including player progression, rewards, persistence, and live-service functionality.
Designed and refactored multiplayer-safe gameplay systems, ensuring correct server authority, replication, and client proxy behavior.
Implemented and supported code redemption with entitlement system, integrating Unreal Engine clients with backend services.
Built and maintained Azure Functions (C#/.NET) to support live gameplay features, player actions, and service-side validation.
Worked with encryption, secure data handling, and client–server compatibility, including AES-based solutions across C++ and C#.
Optimized and refactored legacy systems to improve performance, scalability, and maintainability in a live production environment.
Debugged and resolved platform-specific issues on Xbox and PlayStation, including pak mounting, streaming installs, and online flow edge cases.
Collaborated closely with designers, QA, backend engineers, and production to ship features safely to live players.
Authored extensive internal documentation (150+ pages) covering systems, debugging strategies, and long-term maintenance guidance.

Created a system that would allow players to voluntarily submit their Email address for future offers and communication
Implemented the Client side code and blueprints into our existing settings menu that would allow the player to submit, verify, update and remove their Email
Implemented the backend code that would handle the data management of this feature. The system also handles integrations with Funcom's Customer Communication Management(CCM)

Implemented a downed state for followers with limited strikes instead of dying.
The server owns the state, timer, the revive and the cleanup. The client asks to start, and answers the one question only it can answer. Start and stop are one replicated pointer: setting it starts cosmetics through OnRep, nulling it on cleanup stops them.
The only client targeted RPC goes to the reviving player, to read whether the interact key is still held.

Created a system that would allow players to redeem codes that when redeemed would give players access to in-game skins.
Implemented the client side code and blueprints that would handle both code submission and reward handling.
Implemented the backend code that would manage active codes and manage the state of the codes. The system supports unique codes that could be used by individual players as well as master codes that could be redeemed by all players as part of promotional events.

Created a system that would allow players to voluntarily submit their Email address for future offers and communication
Implemented the Client side code and blueprints into our existing settings menu that would allow the player to submit, verify, update and remove their Email
Implemented the backend code that would handle the data management of this feature. The system also handles integrations with Funcom's Customer Communication Management(CCM)

Implemented a Character Transfer system that allows players to upload characters and download them to other servers.

Added new Smart Object Condition function that could be configured and reused for different Smart Objects that would execute Gameplay Tag checks for a character to determine if they met the Item in Inventory requirements to be slotted. Ex. Check if a character has a item with the Item.Weapon.Bow tag before allowing the character to be slotted in an Archer Emplacement.

Added support for players to attain battlepass progress through the completion of normal gameplay activities. Ex. Kills, Farming, Crafting, Building.