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…
Posts tagged Niantic
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…
My Career – Part 18: Niantic: The first year
After leaving Microsoft, I gave myself two months to find another job. I hit leetcode pretty hard and started learning about other areas (my entire career up to this point was kind of niche –…