Paradox Interactive

My first role in the games industry, and the move to Stockholm.

Overview

Paradox Interactive is the Stockholm-based publisher and developer known for deep strategy and management games. Joining Paradox was the jump from property-management software in Cincinnati to games in Sweden.

Current Status

Previous role.

What I worked on

• Backend and platform services
• Infrastructure and tooling shared across titles
• Primarily Data and Telemetry, but crossed over into other areas

Lessons Learned

• A publisher's platform team supports many games at once — the constraints and trade-offs are different from working on a single product.
• Relocating a career across an ocean: what transfers directly, and what has to be relearned.
• Built the Telemetry v3 pipeline, moving from SQS/Consumers to Amazon Kinesis Firehose directly to Snowflake, and the lessons learned from that migration.

Tools

• Node.js
• Snowflake
• AWS
• Terraform