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We take great pride in hiring top talent from a variety of disciplines and bringing people together with one simple directive: Collaborate and create. Below are some of the people at Valve who do just that. </p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="people"> <div class="row"> <div class="col_offset_7 col_5 search_form_wrapper"> <form class="search_form"> <input type="text" placeholder="Search People"> <button type="button" class="clear_button">Search</button> <button class="search_button">Search</button> </form> </div> <div class="col_12 people_list"> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Art</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Aaron Barber</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Aaron got his first taste of creating 3D environments while he was studying engineering at UCLA. He was building VRML websites for the university, and also started designing levels for several internet mods. His level design skills landed him a job at Xatrix Entertainment where he worked on Redneck Rampage, Quake 2, and Kingpin before joining Valve in 1999 to work on Half-Life 2. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Aaron Barber" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ariel Diaz</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ariel came to Valve after finishing his studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design. As part of Valve's character design team, he is responsible for creating character models, facial expressions, and skeleton deformations. Outside Valve, he pursues traditional art skills such as drawing, painting, and sculpting. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Brad Kinley</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Full-time bellowing sasquatch and animator. Brad came to Valve after working for ILM, Bioware and Capcom. He thought animating Optimus Prime on top of a t-rex would be the peak of his own particular sizzle mountain, but the mountain has continued to sizzle here at Valve. Sizzling mountain animation action. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Bram Eulaers</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Growing up in Belgium, Bram got hooked on game development making levels for Duke Nukem 3D and Half-life at a young age. After getting a start in the games industry working at various companies in the Netherlands and Sweden, he moved to the United States to help create Overwatch at Blizzard Entertainment. With his roots in the modding community, he now feels at home at Valve, where he spends most of his time obsessing over efficient UV layouts. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Chris Welch</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Chris received his Bachelor's of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Animation and Medical Illustration. After working in the Biomedical field for several years as a 3d artist and traditional illustrator, he went on to work in the film industry as a Look/Dev and Texture Artist, working on films such as Avatar. He has now been at Valve as an artist since 2010 working on all things art related, from character design and environment concepting, to video game trailer production. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Chris Welch" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Dan Rosas Paulsen</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Dan comes from busy Mexico City. Back there he was lead artist for Kerbal Space Program. Before joining Valve he completed a Master's in 3D Animation at the National Centre for Computer Animation in the UK. On his spare time he enjoys composing music and working on his own experimental projects, while getting used to rainy Seattle. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Eric Kirchmer</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> At the age of 6, after a chance encounter with the artist Phil Tippett, Eric had the opportunity to view many of the original models following the release of Return of the Jedi, which set him on course to coloring, building, drawing, and creating with any and all materials in his path. If only his younger self would have ever known what would someday follow as a career. In the years as an artist with Valve, Eric has contributed to the visual design of games including Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and other Valve titles. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Eric Kirchmer" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Irving Zhang</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Irving is an effects artist at Valve. His passion is crafting incredible and memorable gaming experiences for players. His favorite Dota hero is Brewmaster. When he's not in front of a computer, he loves fitness, tennis, and travel. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jason Brashill</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jason worked on British comics 2000ad and Judge Dredd Megazine as well as concept art for many games. His free time was spent mostly 芒聙聹enhancing芒聙聺 (other people鈥檚) property with spray paint. Jason eventually skipped town and now resides near Seattle where he does all manner of arting at Valve and no longer pursues his extra-curricular activities in any way shape or form. Honest. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Matt Charlesworth</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Matt is and Artist and Designer from the UK city of Nottingham. After spending the first 10 years of his career working at studios in the UK and Canada, Matt joined Valve in 2008. He got straight to work crafting character art and for Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Dota 2 and The Lab and has most recently shipped Half-Life: Alyx. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Max Aristov</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Since Max's first computer Iskra-1030 he has been on a mission to only use the latest and greatest computers and software which lead him to working on videogames at GSC Gameworld, Action Forms, Crytek, Raven Software and finally Valve. He works on characters and environments </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Max Aristov" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Nick Bizzozero</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Nick is a 3D generalist at Valve. You may know him from his work on the Risk of Rain series. He has spent most of his life breaking other peoples games and trying to convince his bosses to let people break his. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Thiago Vidotto</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Thiago received his Bachelor's of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Sao Paulo - Brazil.He has a passion for learning and started his videogame journey modding Quake back in the 90s. At Valve, he has been working in many different roles like Modeling, Animation, and VFX.In his personal life, he enjoys bladesmithing, racing motorcycles, and transforming his house into a jungle. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Thiago Vidotto" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/tvidotto" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Tristan Reidford</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Tristan earned a degree in transportation design. After a dipping a toe into industrial design, he found his way into making models for games, eventually landing at Valve to help with Half Life 2, Episode 2. Since then He's been delighted to get away with building all sorts of models and art for Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Team fortress 2, among others. Outside of Valve, Tristan enjoys the decision paralysis that comes from making art and models in the real world where there is no Ctrl Z. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Tristan Reidford" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Wade Schin</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Wade has worked in the game industry as an artist since 1998, and for Valve since 2005. In his spare time, he participates in group art shows and experiments with 3d printing and casting. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Wade Schin" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Audio</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ethan Geller</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Ethan Geller mostly works on audio, music and software. He can occasionally be found playing middling jazz-rock at small venues in Seattle. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Ethan Geller" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Mike Morasky</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Morasky's life and career sounds a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Teenage guitar player in a bar band in Montana; award-winning experimental composer in Tokyo; audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley; underground art rocker touring the world; 3D animator and director for television; electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan; visual fx artist on The Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies; AI animation instructor at an art college. These days, Mike is doing some combination of all these things at Valve. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Mike Morasky" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Nathaniel Blue</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Nathaniel Blue works on The Steam Team and Audio at Valve. He spends most of his time working on Steam features, new business opportunities, and music. He has a variety of experience in the gaming industry, advertising, and the music industry. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ryan Done</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Ryan Done is a software engineer who works on systems for game audio production and audio processing. He's always looking for an occasion to ride bikes. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Tim Larkin</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> As a freelance composer and musician, Tim has done it all. He played trumpet for the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Sheila E., Lou Rawls, Huey Lewis, James Brown, and Natalie Cole; recorded numerous records, movies, documentaries, and TV shows (including Survivor and Fear Factor 2.0) as a studio musician; created the sound design for The Chubbchubbs!, a 2003 Academy Award winner for Best Animated Short Film; and as Audio Director at Cyan studio for eight years, created the music and sound for the Myst series. Now, he's here at Valve, where he's worked on just about every title the company has shipped. When he's not working, Tim is playing tennis, fly fishing, or commuting back and forth to his home and family in Spokane, WA. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Tobin Buttram</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> As a music major, Tobin looked forward to a career in food service. Instead, he spent most of his twenties touring and recording with Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists, which led, somehow inevitably, to Microsoft in 1996, where he worked on Interactive Music Architecture (DirectMusic) and as an Audio Director at Microsoft Game Studios, primarily with FASA. Tobin joined Valve in 2008 and is blown away every day that, in addition to doing audio production on some of the coolest projects in the whole wide world, he's allowed to tinker with the audio calls in the game code, and encouraged to learn more about that side of the process every day. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Business Development</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Adam Klaff</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Adam joined Valve in 2015. He works on the Steam business team. Prior to that, he ran business development for a video startup in Brooklyn, and before that he worked in production on several movies, plays and television projects. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Connor Malone</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Connor joined Valve in 2009 as part of the Support Team. After a few years he joined the Steam Business team to help third-party developers and coordinate promotions. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Connor Malone" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">DJ Powers</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> The bulk of my childhood and young adult life revolved around working to become a better golfer. After a mostly unsuccessful playing career, I spent a few years coaching collegiate golf teams and then transitioned indoors to work on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour games at Electronic Arts. During my time at EA, I worked in the EA Partners Group where we helped Valve ship The Orange Box, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2 on console and into retail. I started at Valve in 2010, working as a member of the Business Development Team and focusing on Steam, Partner relationships, Hardware and VR among many other things. Mostly unsuccessful is still a good description of my golf game. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Nathaniel Blue</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Nathaniel Blue works on The Steam Team and Audio at Valve. He spends most of his time working on Steam features, new business opportunities, and music. He has a variety of experience in the gaming industry, advertising, and the music industry. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ria Hu</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Doing a little bit of everything, everywhere, all at once. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Shreya Liu</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Shreya graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign but got working on strategic business partnerships for Surface while at Microsoft. She used to dream about lightsabers but now she's working on making them a [virtual] reality. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Tom Giardino</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Tom is a graduate of the University of Washington Foster School of Business and a former high school teacher. He has worked at Valve since 2012. Tom spends his days on the Steam Business team. One part of that work is making Steam a better platform for customers to buy and play games. The other part is helping game developers make the most of Steam's tools, features, and opportunities. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Tom Giardino" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Customer Support</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">David Underwood</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> David spent seven years in higher education before joining Valve in 2014 to work with Steam Support. His focus is on quality, partner management, and project management. If you need assistance with your Steam account, please create a help request at https://help.steampowered.com. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=David Underwood" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jared Christen</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jared has worked with Steam Support since 2010 and is currently focused on expanding and refining the support operation. If you have feedback for Steam Support or from an interaction that you've had with the team, send it my way using my contact link below. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jared Christen" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Patricia Zavalza</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> After working in manufacturing for almost a decade focusing on Program and Account Management, Patricia joined the Customer Support team at Valve where she is working on improving the quality of our interactions with our users and partners. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Data Science</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">John McDonald</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> John writes high performance code and oversees gradient descents. Prior to joining Valve, he worked at NVIDIA where he developed new techniques to drive GPUs and helped numerous developers optimize their game engines. John got his start in the game industry working on Command & Conquer: Generals. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=John McDonald" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Kristian Miller</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Kristian studied Economics and Finance at Montana State University before arriving at Valve in 2012. He started on Team Fortress 2, where he worked to better understand player interactions with crates, name tags, and Hats of Undeniable Wealth and Respect. Kristian currently works with the Steam team, where he focuses on platform growth, virtual reality, and development of partners' in-game economies. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Kristian Miller" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Matt Rhoten</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Software nerd who's a little interested in everything else too. </p> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/mrhoten" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Game Design</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Alexander Mark</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Prior to joining Valve, Alex animated in Film and FX for a decade. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ariel Diaz</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ariel came to Valve after finishing his studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design. As part of Valve's character design team, he is responsible for creating character models, facial expressions, and skeleton deformations. Outside Valve, he pursues traditional art skills such as drawing, painting, and sculpting. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Dave Riller</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Dave started working on games in his spare time back in the days of Doom and Quake. His work caught our eye and we lured him here from the East Coast to work on Half-Life. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Eddie Parker</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Rogue Canadian masquerading as a software engineer, designer, and whatever else they let me get away with. Please note: Valve Employees will never ask you for personal or account information, on Steam or anywhere else. You can safely ignore anyone who claims to have mistakenly reported you - that will not get you banned. If you need help with your Steam account, go to https://help.steampowered.com/. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Eddie Parker" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/eddieparker/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Greg Cherlin</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> I do level design, game design, and gameplay programming. At Valve I've worked on Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal 2, and Dota 2. Some of my favorite games: Descent, Everquest, StarCraft: Brood War, Slay the Spire, and Valheim. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ido Magal</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Ido joined Valve in 2001. He's older now. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jake Rodkin</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jake is a level and UI designer and still doesn't quite believe it. He helped make Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, and many old websites lost to time. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jake Rodkin" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jeff Lane</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jeff joined Valve in 2000. Previously at Sierra On-line working on multiple titles, lastly Swat 3 CQB. Jeff has been a designer and technical artist on many Valve products including Team Fortress, Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat, Left 4 Dead, Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, and VR titles The Lab and Half-Life: Alyx. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jeff Lane" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">John Morello</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> John is an animator most of the time. He鈥檚 been a gamer since his parents bought their Commodore 64. As a high-schooler he made small Quake mods and became addicted to Team Fortress. After graduating, his brother introduced him to the guys on the Day of Defeat team. They wanted to ship their mod, but they needed animation help. John jumped in. Valve eventually invited John and the rest of the team to continue DoD development at Valve鈥檚 offices. At this point, John has worked on nearly every product we've shipped. His TF obsession is over - replaced by an addiction to DotA, and lapping his Ducati at local road courses. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Karen Prell</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Karen performed for 16 years as a puppeteer with Jim Henson and the Muppets before becoming a computer animator. She worked at Pixar and several other animation companies before joining Valve, where she continues to apply her puppet acting experience towards animating an exciting mix of heroes, creatures and robots. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ken Banks</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Before joining Valve in 2010 as a Level Designer and Artist, Ken Banks previously worked on titles including Doom 3, Quake 4, and Borderlands. His career was inspired by his first real gaming experience on the PC, Valve's Half-Life, in 1998. He became established in Half-Life's flourishing mod community as a contributor to the successful Natural-Selection, which helped launch his career into game development at the age of 18. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Kyle Sommer</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Kyle likes making and playing games. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Matt Charlesworth</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Matt is and Artist and Designer from the UK city of Nottingham. After spending the first 10 years of his career working at studios in the UK and Canada, Matt joined Valve in 2008. He got straight to work crafting character art and for Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Dota 2 and The Lab and has most recently shipped Half-Life: Alyx. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Matt Logue</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> As a paint fixer and rotoscope artist at the legendary Tippett Studio, Matthew painted a pimple out of Darryl Hannah's armpit for My Favorite Martian and rotoscoped Kevin Bacon in a black bodysuit for Hollowman. He moved on to legendary Weta Digital to work as an animator and animation lead for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He came to legendary Valve from Los Angeles where he was the animation supervisor on The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, the longest title of any film he's ever worked on. He's now animating on Dota 2. Matthew had been eyeing Valve for awhile and is happy to report that he and his family like Seattle much better than LA, although the weather reminds him of that Ray Bradbury short story (All Summer in a Day) where the sun only comes out for two hours every seven years. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Mike Belzer</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Before Valve, Mike animated for TV, Commercials and Film. Now he's animating at the coolest company on the planet making awesome content for fun games and VR. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Miles Estes</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Miles began his career at Foundation Imaging in Southern California as a character animator on the Starship Troopers TV series. Shortly thereafter, he got his start in games - lead animator for Interplay's PS2 game Run Like Hell. Upon joining Valve in 2001, Miles was inhumanely forced to participate in company playtests. As a result, he developed an addiction to Counter-Strike, despite the fact that he was really bad at it. He has since overcome his addiction and contributes character modeling and/or animation to a lot of Valve games. His hobbies include lamenting over the fact that he's not drawing enough. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Miles Estes" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Phil Co</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Phil Co has been a level designer since 1996. He joined Valve in 2005 and has worked on The Orange Box, the Left 4 Dead series, Portal 2, Dota 2 and SteamVR. Phil tried filmmaking for the documentary Free to Play and is also the author of the book Level Design for Games. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Phil Co" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/philco/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Robin Walker</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Robin is Bluey. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Robin Walker" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Sahil Dhanju</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Sahil is a gameplay programmer from Dallas, Texas. He loved Valve's games so much that he was determined to eventually work on them. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Sahil Dhanju" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/Vatyx" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Sean Vanaman</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Writer and lackluster game developer. Worked on projects such as Firewatch, The Walking Dead and was the inventor of the rotary engine. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Sean Vanaman" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198009246617" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Simonne Brown</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Simonne loved pushing buttons as a child, so she decided to push buttons as a career. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Tristan Reidford</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Tristan earned a degree in transportation design. After a dipping a toe into industrial design, he found his way into making models for games, eventually landing at Valve to help with Half Life 2, Episode 2. Since then He's been delighted to get away with building all sorts of models and art for Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Team fortress 2, among others. Outside of Valve, Tristan enjoys the decision paralysis that comes from making art and models in the real world where there is no Ctrl Z. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Tristan Reidford" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Hardware</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ben Jackson</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Ben started his career as a UNIX systems programmer and then accidentally transitioned to embedded systems focused on video delivery. Valve rescued him from the video industry and gave him the opportunity to work on Steam, Steam Controller, and Virtual Reality. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Benoit Collette</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Industrial Designer - creating meaningful and successful design solutions by merging and blurring the boundaries of Industrial Design, User Experience, and Interaction Design. Currently working on SteamDeck. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Benoit Collette" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Gordon Stoll</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Gordon is a software/math type who is working on VR hardware. And by "working on VR hardware" I mean calibrating things. Allllll the things. So many things. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jeff Leinbaugh</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jeff writes software and firmware for all sorts of VR devices. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jeff Mucha</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Hardware engineer working on Steam Deck and SteamVR hardware and technology </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jeff Mucha" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jeremy Selan</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jeremy is a software developer working on hardware. He loves pixels. Except for the crappy ones. He's excited about the future of VR, concerned about AI, and otherwise an optimist. He formerly had unrealistic expectations for pixels in the visual effects industry, and regularly overcomes zeroth-world problems. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jeremy Selan" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198041710321/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Johnny Deng</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Electrical Engineer with experience in Signal Integrity and Semiconductor product development, test. I work a lot in the lab. </p> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/diredesire/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Michael Baseflug</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Valve Employees (including myself) are not on Discord or any other platforms asking you for personal or account information. You can't get banned by someone claiming to have mistakenly reported you. Only share information with Steam customer support through the official website https://help.steampowered.com </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Michael Baseflug" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/theflug" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Shreya Liu</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Shreya graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign but got working on strategic business partnerships for Surface while at Microsoft. She used to dream about lightsabers but now she's working on making them a [virtual] reality. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Steve Cardinali</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Steve is a product design engineer who spent 10 years designing small electronic devices to be as small as they can be (Apple Watches and insulin pumps). Now he's working on larger hardware products for Valve and all the extra space scares him. Somebody give him a box. </p> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/scardin3/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Tor Krog</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> I work with our design teams and manufacturing / supplier partners to help herd the chaos of launching new products. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Tor Krog" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Human Resources</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Amy Baisch</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Unlike most people at Valve, Amy was actually born and raised right here in Washington, on Whidbey Island. And like all native Washingtonians talking to transplants, she will remind you of this fact roughly twice a minute in any given conversation. After many years working at Zillow, Amy took a break from work to enjoy time with her family and learn how to cook some bucket list foods, like Beef Wellington and Lasagna Bolognese from scratch. Years later, sitting in her kitchen surrounded by pans of Beef Wellington, Amy realized it was either time to pick some new foods or get back to work. Since joining Valve Amy has found a second family. She gets the opportunity to work with exceptionally talented and incredibly kind people every day, and to spend every day helping to make their experience at Valve better. When she鈥檚 not working, Amy鈥檚 favorite passion is to travel. Be sure to ask her about Utila next time you see her! </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Elizabeth Ratto</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Right before joining Valve in 2010, Elizabeth worked for Gracenote(a Subsidiary of Sony). Elizabeth is a graduate of California State University, Chico (with a concentration in Human Resources). Please note: Valve Employees will never ask you for personal or account information, on Steam or anywhere else. If you need help with your Steam account, go to https://help.steampowered.com/. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Product Design</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Alden Kroll</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Alden has a habit of ending up in the middle of everything. If he isn't getting in the way of Steam game releases, he's probably working on UI design for Valve games or the Steam store. Alden came to Valve after working on design and production for the Xbox 360 Dashboard. Before that, he studied design at the University of Washington and worked on various freelance design projects. When he's not working, Alden can be found chasing his competitive ambitions in cycling and swimming. He commutes to work by swimming back and forth across Lake Washington every day. Most weekends, he relaxes by riding his bike to Portland. Twice. </p> <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/alden" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Benoit Collette</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Industrial Designer - creating meaningful and successful design solutions by merging and blurring the boundaries of Industrial Design, User Experience, and Interaction Design. Currently working on SteamDeck. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Benoit Collette" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Dhabih Eng</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Dhabih's name is pronounced ZA-bee. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Dhabih Eng" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Emily Kent</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Emily works on the UI for Steam; library, mobile apps, community, support, sales, and security. Prior to Valve, Emily spent time working at Xbox, a mobile start up, frog, Jackson Fish Market, and Microsoft's Pioneer Studios. Emily wants you to protect your account with the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jay Shaw</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jay Shaw" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">John Ikeda</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> John has designed eyewear, test and measurement equipment and many gaming products. He has also worked on input products for creatives as well as VR. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Lawrence Yang</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> UX / Product Design / many other hats, currently working on Steam and Steam Deck. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Lawrence Yang" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Melissa Small</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Melissa likes collaborating, reading books, knitting hats, painting pictures, going on long walks, and choosing colors. She gets to do most of those things at Valve. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Melissa Small" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Quintin Doroquez</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> "Q!" brings over 10 years of multi-disciplinary graphic design experience to Valve. He has had a creative role in launching print, online, and new media endeavors as a senior art director for Incite PC Gaming magazine, art director for PC Accelerator, and associate art director for PC Gamer. At Valve, you can find Q!'s schedule filled with marketing, packaging, web design, game trailers, .dem file creation, and other visual communications tasks. In his spare time, Q! likes to reminisce about how he was training to be a competitive bodybuilder 14 years ago. Get over it, already! </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Quintin Doroquez" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Shawn Zabecki</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> 2017 Valve fantasy football champion. University of Washington VCD graduate. Although he sucks at actually playing video games, he loves working on them. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Shawn Zabecki" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Simonne Brown</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Simonne loved pushing buttons as a child, so she decided to push buttons as a career. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Software Engineering</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Adil Sardar</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Adil is originally from Toronto, Canada and he joined Valve in late 2016. Since then he has built various features that help game developers to communicate with their fans. For examples, he has worked on live streaming, game events, Steam sales and developer home pages on Steam. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Adil Sardar" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/adils_valve/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Al Farnsworth</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Originally from the east coast, Al moved to Seattle in 2006 and joined Valve a couple years later in 2008. Since joining, Al has worked on everything Steam - from Steam Chat and Trading, to holiday sales and Tagging on the Steam Store, to Steam Trading Cards and Discussions on the Steam Community. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Al Farnsworth" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/afarnsworth/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Anish Chandak</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Anish joined Valve in 2016 where he is one of the main developers behind Steam Audio. He did his undergraduate in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2006 and received his Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2011. Before joining Valve, Anish was the co-founder and CEO of a VR audio tech startup Impulsonic. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Anish Chandak" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ben Burbank</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Ben is a programmer formerly of Campo Santo, Double Fine, and EA. He cares deeply about helping people tell stories and focuses predominantly on tools, UI, and systems. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Ben Burbank" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ben Jackson</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Ben started his career as a UNIX systems programmer and then accidentally transitioned to embedded systems focused on video delivery. Valve rescued him from the video industry and gave him the opportunity to work on Steam, Steam Controller, and Virtual Reality. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Brian Jacobson</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> As a child, Brian learned how to program by cracking all the computer games he couldn't afford to buy. As an adult, he decided to join the games industry as a way to make up for his reprehensible childhood. At LookingGlass, he worked on Flight Unlimited. He went on to co-found GameFX, and was a Lead Engineer on Sinistar Unleashed. He joined Valve in 2000 and has contributed to just about everything the company has shipped since then. Brian focuses mostly on engine and graphics technology, with the occasional foray into game design. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Brian Jacobson" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Charlie Brown</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Another Fort Walton Beach, Florida native, Charlie graduated from the University of Florida in the summer of 1994 and headed for California and 3Dfx Interactive. His responsibilities there included developer support, porting products to hardware, sample code, simple demos, and ultimately working with the 3Dfx developer relations team to manage the engineering game porting effort. Charlie left 3Dfx after two years and, with his college friend Gary McTaggart, created the Uber(tm) Engine at Ritual Entertainment in Dallas, Texas. Not long after joining Ritual, Charlie and Gary left to start their own company. Not long after that, Valve made Charlie (and Gary) an offer "they couldn't refuse." </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Charlie Brown" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Chris Carollo</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Chris started his career at Looking Glass, working on sound and physics for the Thief Series, and later the sequel to Deus Ex at Ion Storm. Since joining Valve he's worked on chainsaws and jockeys and spell-stealing wizards and machines that make suggestions for Steam and Dota 2.He will never contact you on Discord. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Chris Carollo" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Chris Kadar</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> If not at his desk, Chris can probably be found somewhere on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck. If needed, he can be summoned by jingling a bag of Apex seals. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Colby Sieber</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Having spent his early years between Georgia, Alabama, and Texas, by the end of college Colby was ready to escape the hot, humid weather of the South and jumped on an opportunity to move to the Seattle area and join Microsoft. Then, in 2018, he scored his dream job as an engineer at Valve and has been enjoying every minute of it. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Colby Sieber" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Daniel Jennings</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Daniel Jennings" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Dave Kircher</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Dave joined Valve in 2005 to work on the rendering and physics aspects of portals for the game Portal. Now he spends most of his time doing low level systems work in Source 2. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Dave Kircher" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/them/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Don Holden</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Don has been at Valve since 2009 after earning a couple computer science degrees from Cornell University. He has contributed to Source 2 and numerous projects including The Lab and Half-Life: Alyx, with a focus on computer graphics. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Drew Gottlieb</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Drew joined Valve in 2018 to work on all things VR, and later dove head-first into building Steam Deck.Originally from "near Philadelphia", he graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology having worked at Microsoft (Windows) and Google (Tilt Brush, Google Flights). If he manages to peel a VR headset off his face, it's probably because he has an indie concert to attend or an evening of scuba diving in the many waters of wet Seattle.NOTE: Drew does not have a Discord, so he is definitely not reaching out to you on Discord. Nor is any other Valve employee, ever. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Drew Gottlieb" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Eddie Parker</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Rogue Canadian masquerading as a software engineer, designer, and whatever else they let me get away with. Please note: Valve Employees will never ask you for personal or account information, on Steam or anywhere else. You can safely ignore anyone who claims to have mistakenly reported you - that will not get you banned. If you need help with your Steam account, go to https://help.steampowered.com/. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Eddie Parker" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/eddieparker/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Fletcher Dunn</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> I'm a generalist programmer who has been making games since 1996. For some reason I wrote 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Games Development. Lately I've been focusing on networking. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Fletcher Dunn" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Gordon Stoll</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Gordon is a software/math type who is working on VR hardware. And by "working on VR hardware" I mean calibrating things. Allllll the things. So many things. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jay Stelly</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jay joined Valve from Tetragon where he was lead engineer and 3D engine developer of Virgin's Nanotek Warrior. Before that, he developed titles for Sony Playstation & 3DO. Way before that, he wrote his first computer game (at age 9) and had a game published in a magazine (at age 15). A native of Cajun Country, Jay finds Northwest buildings too hot (what, no air conditioning?) and the food not hot enough. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jay Stelly" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jeff Leinbaugh</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jeff writes software and firmware for all sorts of VR devices. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jeremy Selan</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jeremy is a software developer working on hardware. He loves pixels. Except for the crappy ones. He's excited about the future of VR, concerned about AI, and otherwise an optimist. He formerly had unrealistic expectations for pixels in the visual effects industry, and regularly overcomes zeroth-world problems. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jeremy Selan" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198041710321/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Joe Ludwig</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Joe joined Valve as a programmer in 2009 and has spent his time working on item back ends, trading systems, virtual reality, and hats. These days he is helping out with the software side of Valve's hardware effort. Though he started his game industry career at Sierra in 1998, most of the intervening time was spend on trains and pirate ships during his nine years at Flying Lab software. Before that, he was never in Anthrax, no matter what you may have heard on the internet. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Joe Ludwig" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">John McCaskey</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> John spent his post college graduate years at a struggling Web 2.0 startup, lured in by the illusion of stock option riches. Since arriving at Valve, he's landed on the Steam team where he works on a little bit of everything, from Shopping Carts to the in-game Overlay. His favorite thing about Valve is having a huge, energetic user base, which benefits from the work he does on Steam. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">John McDonald</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> John writes high performance code and oversees gradient descents. Prior to joining Valve, he worked at NVIDIA where he developed new techniques to drive GPUs and helped numerous developers optimize their game engines. John got his start in the game industry working on Command & Conquer: Generals. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=John McDonald" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">John Schoenick</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> John makes software work maybe more than it did previously, with varying degrees of success. Since joining Valve in 2014, he has focused on improving virtual hats, the Linux gaming ecosystem, and intersections thereof. Prior to Valve, John was last seen making attempts at improving the free and open web at Mozilla. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=John Schoenick" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/tehjill/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jon Pile</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jon really really likes writing software, plus doing all the other things you have to do in order to make software useful to humans once you've written it. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Lukasz Gwozdz</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Lukasz used to work at Microsoft (Visual Studio, Azure Data Marketplace) and Facebook (Search Indexing/Metrics). His not-so-secret alter ego also spent countless evenings and nights on Steam. After realizing the work time was cutting into his Steam time a bit too much for his liking, the only logical solution was to apply to Valve and streamline the whole work/play situation. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Lukasz Gwozdz" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Martin Otten</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Martin started at Valve in 2000 as a contractor working from Germany and moved to Seattle after graduating from Dortmund University with a Master's Degree in Computer Science. After working on HLTV, Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2, he moved to the Steam team and has been involved tons of Steam projects & features ever since. When he's not programming, he's reading about planes, or talking about planes or flying a plane. </p> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/martino/" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Matt Rhoten</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Software nerd who's a little interested in everything else too. </p> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/mrhoten" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Nathan Nuber</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Nathan joined Valve in 2021. He uses a keyboard to tell the computer how to solve problems (some details have been omitted for brevity). Prior to Valve, Nathan worked on virtual reality, input devices, and desktop remoting. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Pierre-Loup Griffais</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Born in Paris, Pierre-Loup is a multiclassed systems and graphics programmer with too many opinions on product design. After moving to the US in 2007 to work on graphics drivers, he joined Valve in 2013 to help port Steam and the Source Engine to Linux platforms. Since then, P.L. has helped ship the Steam Controller and the Vulkan graphics API. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Pierre-Loup Griffais" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/plagman" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Sahil Dhanju</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Sahil is a gameplay programmer from Dallas, Texas. He loved Valve's games so much that he was determined to eventually work on them. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Sahil Dhanju" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/Vatyx" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Scott Dalton</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Scott began playing and designing games at an early age on an Atari 800 and never looked back. He came to Valve after creating games at Legend Entertainment for many years. Aside from level design and game mechanics, he delights in creating particle effects and programming the system that drives them. When not making worlds come to life, he's usually making them explode, bleed, and burn. He helped to spin up the hardware teams at Valve and currently is working on the Steam Controller. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Sergiy Migdalskiy</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> A bit of an odd-ball, Sergiy joined Valve to do weird low-level stuff and squeeze more blood, um, juice out of the silicon in your gaming machines. Sergiy specializes in systems programming, physics, and applied math. According to him, some games pretend to be simulating physicsy-looking motion. Sergiy made the physics engine behind Uncharted: Drake's Fortune while at Naughty Dog, and the animation system in Far Cry during his lazy years at Crytek. There were a few other odd jobs here and there, but the list is long and boring, and mostly lost in the eons that have passed. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Taylor Sherman</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Taylor joined Valve in 2001 to help develop Steam, and has been part of that team ever since. His previous experience ranges from DVD emulation to air combat simulators for the military. He has a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union in New York City. In his spare time, Taylor enjoys photography, playing bass and guitar, and staring at maps. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Vitaliy Genkin</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Vitaliy grew up in the Soviet Union. He earned two Master's degrees (with honors) and a lieutenant rank. He solved thousands of differential equations systems, then architected and implemented software that has probably processed petabytes of binary data by now. And then, he moved to Santa Monica to help Sony lay the foundation for PlayStation-3. Vitaliy joined Valve in 2006 and helped us ship The Orange Box, our first Xbox 360 game. He went on to establish our matchmaking system, implement the PlayStation-3 version of our engine, and design and improve our numerous back-end systems. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Vitaliy Genkin" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Yahn Bernier</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Yahn was an Atlanta patent lawyer with a degree in chemistry from Harvard. So obviously he ended up in Seattle developing computer games. He taught himself to program at the age of 12 and has worked on the systems code and tools for most of Valve's titles. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Yahn Bernier" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Technical Infrastructure</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">John Drury</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> John joined Valve in 2018 and works on Steam. Before that, he spent over a decade on the east coast designing, implementing, and maintaining large data platforms for the government, finance, and healthcare industries. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Writing</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jay Pinkerton</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jay Pinkerton is a comedy writer who fell into game writing completely accidentally fifteen years ago and has been waiting for somebody to notice ever since. Prior to joining Valve, Jay ping-ponged around the industry working with very nice people on games that were worked very hard on and then shelved forever. Prior to that he was an editor at the then-resurrected Cracked.com, and helped get that online. Prior to that he was Managing Editor of the National Lampoon. Prior to that he was mostly freelance writing, which is a professional way of saying he starved for a living. Prior to that he was a child, then a baby, and then hadn鈥檛 existed yet. That pretty much catches you up. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jon Blakeley</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Jon joined the ranks of Valve in 2011. We got a lot more strict about hiring after that. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Sean Vanaman</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Writer and lackluster game developer. Worked on projects such as Firewatch, The Walking Dead and was the inventor of the rotary engine. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Sean Vanaman" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198009246617" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Steve Jaros</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Writer of things. Lover of pro wrestling. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Steve Jaros" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="people_category"> <h2 class="people_category_name">Other Experts</h2> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Alireza Razmpoosh</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Alireza moved to Canada (via Iran and Turkey) when he was nine. His first impressions of the west were the films TRON, Die Hard, and Lawnmower Man. Inspired by this trinity of action, art, and science he chose a career in 3D animation and visual effects. After earning a Bachelor's and a post-graduate degree in animation from Sheridan Institute of Technology, Ali went to London to start work on his first film. He was 24. He now works at Valve where he drives the effort to transform visual effects into a dynamic interactive experience - and blows stuff up. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Andrew Kim</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Started with fx in movies now we're here </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Augusta Butlin</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Augusta has been with Valve since 2007. She works on business development for Steam, VR and events like Steam Dev Days. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">David Speyrer</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> David developed telecommunications software in Boulder, Colorado before he came to Valve. During his time here he's been a programmer/designer and cabal lead on Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. He has also worked quite a lot on our Hammer level editor over the years. A fan of recreational physical suffering, David goes rock climbing in his spare time. He has dragged many a pale and shaking Valve employee along on adventures in vertiginous terror. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=David Speyrer" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Eric Smith</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Eric joined Valve in 2000 after graduating from the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA. Before DigiPen, he worked for Nintendo of America. But when DigiPen opened its doors in the U.S. in January 1998, Eric saw an opportunity to change careers and make games instead of just playing them. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Eric Smith" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Erik Johnson</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Erik began his career as a shoe salesman and moved up to selling used cars. When he decided that the car business wasn't for him either, he took a job in Sierra Online's QA department. As one of Sierra's Half-Life testers, Erik spent a lot of time at Valve and we eventually offered him a job as shipping manager. Erik is now one of Valve's business development authorities. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Erik Johnson" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Gabe Newell</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Gabe held a number of positions in the Systems, Applications, and Advanced Technology divisions during his 13 years at Microsoft. His responsibilities included running program management for the first two releases of Windows, starting the company's multimedia division, and leading efforts on the Information Highway PC. Then he started Valve. His most significant contribution to Half-Life, the company鈥檚 debut title, was his statement: "C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up." </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Gabe Newell" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Jason Mitchell</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> After eight years leading ATI's 3D Application Research Group, Jason was finally seduced by the entertainment industry and joined Valve in 2005. He has worked on a variety of projects, from real-time rendering to Source Filmmaker to the Steam iOS client and, most recently, VR game programming on Half-Life: Alyx. He has even gotten to apply his latent CAD skills by modeling and texturing props for Left 4 Dead 2 and designing puzzles and gameplay spaces for Half-Life: Alyx. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Jason Mitchell" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Kaci Aitchison Boyle</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> I'm a communications nerd and slightly obsessed with all things communications-related, which some might call PR and Marketing. I prefer to say the longer thing which is that I'm literally always delighted to collaborate on working on communications goals and challenges of any kind by finding interesting and thoughtful ways to connect the messaging with different audiences. (My favorite thing in the world is if someone sends me an entire packet of words and says "can we make this better?" It's like a word puzzle, which is a convenient excuse for me to bring up that I'm also a midlevel (ok fine, low-level) jigsaw puzzle competitor.)Prior to joining Valve, I spent twenty years in live TV and radio, doing everything from anchoring the (often depressing) morning news to interviewing guests and putting together stories in ways that I hoped drew attention in fun and interesting ways to the people and organizations that needed it. Did that include cool things like flying with the National Guard and Blue Angels? Yes! Did it also include washing a cow for the county fair? You betcha. Did I ever read the wrong name in the prompter WHILE INTRODUCING MYSELF anchoring the morning show? Of course not*, that's from a movie. *Lies, I totally did that. I was filling in for someone who was out sick and they forgot to change it in the script and it was 4:30am and I was tired and honestly even typing this out I realize I have no excuse. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Kaci Aitchison Boyle" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Liam Lavery</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Liam showed early promise in his summer job at General Motors making car transmissions. Twice, GM and the UAW awarded him a Certificate of Perfect Attendance. But Liam left the assembly line for the classroom, teaching college and junior high math until a professor named Yau (that would be the Fields Medal-winning Shing-Tung Yau) convinced him to look for other work. Liam's interest in understanding the rules that govern society led him to law school, and then to Seattle's K&L Gates firm where he specialized in technology and business law and worked with a number of game companies, including Valve. Right before joining Valve, Liam served as general counsel of Zillow.com. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Matthew An</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Matthew has worked at Valve since 2010 and is currently focused on Localization. He does a little bit of this and a little bit of that here and there. </p> <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/anster" class="view_steam_profile" target="_blank"> View Steam Profile </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Ronald Hu</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Does a little bit of this and that here at Valve. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Sara Charhon</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Sara is one of those odd ducks who decided she wanted to be in Human Resources when she was attending college at the University of Washington. She received an internship in HR with BECU, and began working for them full time once she graduated. From there she went on to work for Zillow, and now she is lucky enough to be a part of Valve's Human Resources team. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Sara Charhon" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Scott Lynch</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Before joining Valve, Scott was Senior Vice President at Havas Interactive where he created and managed the Sierra Studios business unit that published Half-Life. During his five years with Sierra, Scott held a number of different positions in business development, acquisitions, finance, investor relations, and product development. Before Sierra, Scott worked in the public accounting industry for Coopers & Lybrand. In both the audit and tax departments, he managed a range of clients, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Scott is a graduate of the University of Washington Business School (with a concentration in accounting), and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant in the State of Washington. </p> <a href="https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?contact-person=Scott Lynch" class="contact_person"> Contact </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row person"> <div class="col_4"> <div class="name">Se谩n O Sullivan</div> </div> <div class="col_8 person_details_wrapper"> <div class="person_details"> <p class="bio"> Systems Engineer who moved from Ireland to Seattle in 2019 to work for Valve. I spend my time working on our dedicated game servers, datacenters, CDNs and with games teams. 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