Tim Preston is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in graphics programming and systems engineering across the gaming industry. Currently serving as the Lead Systems Engineer at Archetype Entertainment since April 2021, Tim has previously held roles such as Senior Software Engineer at Bioware and Mythic, where responsibilities included leading graphics technology development and managing programming teams for various projects. Tim's career also encompasses significant contributions as a Senior Software Engineer at Emergent Game Technologies, focusing on renderer development, and earlier as a Software Engineer at NDL, where key work involved porting technologies to different platforms. Tim holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an AB in Chemistry from Princeton University.