My experience joining Nuna was so bizarre and unexpected that I figured that it warranted its own chapter. In October 2021, I decided to leave Niantic after a phone call with Piaw. Piaw then sent…
Date Archives March 2025
My Career – Part 22: Leaving Niantic
I always thought that companies fell into one of two categories: evil or insignificant. Most companies have very little impact in any meaningful way. These companies might do fun work, but in the grand scheme…
My Career – Part 21: Niantic: How I made #1 on a Cracked listicle
One day I was scrolling through cracked.com (as I do almost daily) and while reading an article titled “5 Security Flaws In Games that Caused Catastrophes”, I found that I had made #1 on the…
My Career – Part 20: Niantic: Fixing anti-cheat
I want to describe the anti-cheat system that we built without providing enough specifics that would allow people to bypass it. The new anti-cheat initiative had the following goals: We decided to built two separate…
My Career – Part 19: Niantic: Anti-cheat
I was made the technical lead for Niantic’s anti-cheat initiative. Before I describe the experience, it might be useful for me to describe Niantic’s anti-cheat problem. At the time that I joined Niantic, they only…