Kathleen Marty

Kathleen Marty has over 20 years of work experience in the software engineering, computer sciences, and mechanical engineering fields. Kathleen began their career in 2000 as a Mechanical Engineer at Motorola, Inc. where they completed projects involving the design, development, tooling, and qualification of cellular phone housings and parts.

In 2001, Marty began working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a CIBM Fellow and Research Assistant in the Computer Sciences Department, where they performed research and development of computer vision algorithms for analyzing MRI images. Kathleen was also a Teaching Assistant in the Computer Sciences Department, leading labs for engineering students in the course CS310, Problem Solving with Computers.

In 2004, Marty began working at Raven Software, Activision-Blizzard Inc. as a Studio Software Engineer. Kathleen had extensive breadth and depth of software development in core game engine technology, such as networking, server/clients, memory management, multithreading, performance optimization, security, anti-cheat, reverse engineering, graphics, rendering, streaming, audio, effects, physics, animation, online services, input, storage, video, cross platform development, tools, and more. Kathleen created and executed a technical anti-cheat strategy for multiple games and shipped games such as \"Call of Duty Online\" (2015), \"Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare\" (2014), \"Call of Duty: Ghosts\" (2013), \"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3\" (2011), \"Singularity\" (2010), and \"Call of Duty: Black Ops\" (2010). Kathleen was later promoted to Senior Software Engineer, where they improved Linux dedicated server performance by 30% and researched and applied anti-cheat and security solutions to multiple games.

In 2021, Marty began working at Mountaintop Studios as an Engine Lead and Principal Engine/Systems Engineer.

Kathleen Marty attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1995 to 1999, where they earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Kathleen then returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2001 to 2003, where they earned an M.S. in Computer Sciences.