Chris is the founder of Brave Lighthouse LLC and the HomeTeam GameDev community. His experience includes technical game design for EA, prototyping at Will Wright's R&D company, engine design with a start-up, developing a top-selling mobile game, and speaking at conferences. He's released over 150 podcast interviews, does coding demonstrations viewed by millions, and 300,000 students use his online courses. Outside his company, Chris is IndieCade's alumni lead, speaks and volunteers with high schools, recently chaired IGDA LA’s board, and teaches rapid game prototyping part-time at Northeastern University. He attended Georgia Tech from 2010-2012 for a Masters in Digital Media, and continued for another couple of years teaching and doing research on campus as a PhD student.