I worked as an intern at BossAlien for three months as a full stack developer on the infrastructure team. It was a really great experience.
I worked at BossAlien for three months over the summer of 2017. I had an amazing time there, the work was interesting and the team were so nice and helpful. I worked on the infrastructure team and learnt so much. I had little experience with AWS and cloud-based architecture so everything was very new but I managed to pick things up quite quickly and ended up working as a fully-fledged team member.
I worked as a full-stack developer and so used many different languages and systems: PHP, Unity C#, HTML, Javascript, CSS, JSON, AWS, Git, SVN and others.
My main accomplishments during the internship were:
- Implemented client-controlled server log verbosity system
- Maintained and improved deployment and build distribution tooling
- Created and released project-agnostic player-state snapshot tool
- Implemented support for this tool into CSR2 and an unannounced game
- Supported the wider dev team on tools/operations related issues
BossAlien was an amazing studio to work at. It always had a great atmosphere and was very chilled and laid-back. I learnt a lot both technically and also about the structure/running of a game studio, it was really valuable experience. I want to thank BossAlien and Natural Motion for the opportunity!
