East Side Games
Benson Chen has a solid background in software engineering and DevOps. Benson recently joined East Side Games in 2018 and currently holds the position of Senior DevOps Engineer. Prior to this, they served as a DevOps Engineer and Senior Software Engineer at the company. During their time at East Side Games, Benson was responsible for various important tasks including server-side code and infrastructure management, ensuring service availability and reliability, and implementing new features. Benson played a key role in improving the backend architecture, automating operational tasks, and migrating backend servers using Docker with AWS ECS and Secrets Manager. Benson also worked at BASE株式会社 from 2012 to 2017 as a Software Engineer, where they were assigned to Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. on a full-time basis.
Benson Chen completed their Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia, where they studied from 2006 to 2011. In addition to their degree, they also obtained certifications such as GitLab Certified Associate from GitLab in June 2021, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in July 2022, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate in September 2019, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in May 2019.
East Side Games
East Side Games is a developer and publisher of free to play mobile games. It is focused on making narrative idle games in the business, and creating the technology for developers to tell stories.The company is an independent and profitable game studio with a collaborative, creative, and fun culture. Their games fund all their new projects andits purpose-built technology infrastructure powers its rapid, iterative prototyping, based directly on audience feedback. This allows them to take design ideas to playable releases in days rather than months.ESG currently publishes and operates successful franchise titles including Archer: Danger Phone, Dragon Up: Idle Adventure, The Goldbergs: Back to the 80s, It's Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile, and Trailer Park Boys Grea$y Money.East Side Games was recently recognized on the "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers 2020" list compiled by Pocket Gamer Biz, on the "Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers" list compiled by Canada's Top 100, as well as on the "Canada's Top Growing Companies 2019" list compiled by Globe & Mail Report on Business and 2020 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winners.In 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia