Rhiannon Nichols

Rhiannon Nichols has a diverse and extensive work experience in the gaming industry. Rhiannon is currently working as an Engineering Release Manager at Gala Games, starting in 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Ubisoft as a Build & Release Specialist II, focusing on live operations and release management for the game "XDefiant."

Rhiannon also gained valuable experience at Bethesda Game Studios. Rhiannon started as an Embedded QA on the Live Team and quickly moved up to become a QA Engineer on the Live Team. In these roles, they were responsible for various QA tasks, production deployments, automation, and patch analysis for the game Fallout 76. Rhiannon later transitioned to the role of QA Engineer (Infrastructure) and then Infrastructure Engineer, where they handled infrastructure tasks, wrote and maintained build scripts, provided team support, and performed bug fixes and code reviews.

Before working at Bethesda, Rhiannon was the Managing Member of Realms Online, LLC from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, they held multiple roles at GameSalad, Inc. including Customer Success Manager, Software Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, and QA Analyst and Community Liaison. In these roles, they analyzed data, led backend funnel management, contributed to the engineering efforts of GameSalad Creator and Graphene SDK, isolated bugs, automated test procedures, and wrote technical design documentation.

Overall, Rhiannon Nichols has a strong background in release management, infrastructure engineering, QA, and live operations in the gaming industry.

From 2009 to 2016, Rhiannon Nichols attended Austin Community College, though no degree or field of study information is available.