Chris Thierer

Engineering manager for core Bethesda.net platform services supporting Bethesda-published games, live operations, and global launches.

• Led a team of 14 engineers responsible for Accounts, Commerce, Entitlements, Event Logging, Administrative Tools, and Social systems.
• Delivered an age-signal enforcement program on schedule and within budget, enabling Bethesda.net to apply data and access controls across login and platform requests in support of international regulatory requirements.
• Improved delivery across a multi-team program by shifting the work toward smaller, outcome-oriented vertical slices and a layered architecture that could be reused across existing platform services.

Technical lead for Bethesda.net administrative tooling used by internal engineering teams and studio partners.

• Led four engineers in building a shared administrative platform for identity, authorization, auditing, environment separation, product context, and service-specific plugins.
• Replaced custom UIs, direct API use, and database access with a consistent platform that let service teams own their interfaces without rebuilding common capabilities.

Senior engineer and technical lead across Bethesda.net’s public web platform and live-service reliability initiatives.

• Built an ephemeral load-testing platform on AWS ECS that let teams schedule isolated tests through Slack, identify performance bottlenecks, and improve readiness for a major game launch.
• Helped migrate Bethesda.net to React and a headless CMS, then led work across site performance, localization, marketing, and community initiatives.

Full-stack developer and technical lead on federal web applications across health care, public services, research, and enterprise systems.

• Delivered public-facing applications and integrations for HealthCare.gov, VA systems, and NLM resources, helping users access health, research, and public-service information.
• Led four developers delivering a HealthCare.gov application that connected users with local enrollment assistance through REST APIs and JavaScript front ends.