Matt Kerr

Matt Kerr is a Senior Software Architect for Cloud and SaaS at , currently advising on Multiplay game server hosting, Unity Game Services, Unity ads systems, cloud-hosted game development tools, and customer analytics APIs. Over 70% of mobile games for iOS and Android are built with Unity, and 60% of the company's revenues comes from cloud-powered offerings.

In the past, he worked at on Glow (a platform for child-caregiver activities, including games), and at game publishers, , and Microsoft Studios (now called, Xbox Game Studios).

His previous work was as a Senior Software Engineer, primarily on web APIs and backend services for 1st and 2nd party games. The games he has worked on have included both AAA and indie games, and most recently involved supporting the launch of collectible features in .

At EA he was last the technical lead of a central tech team, architecting and programming a games-oriented rules-engine for EA games to make quests and rewards for players. Future games such as were committed to adoption for improving the development and live production workflows for the DICE studio, reducing the time needed to frequently add new gameplay content.

At Microsoft, he was the primary developer on divisions and seasonal reward systems on , a technical lead on microtransaction systems for and Season 3, and was the lead developer of user-generated content (UGC) services for Project Spark and ScreamRide. His work was instrumental in solving technical challenges with network security between games and services on the Windows and Xbox platforms, enabling cross-progression and buy-once-play-anywhere features.