With more than a dozen years as an engineer in the video game industry, CTO Jon Laff has a proven track record in software design and technology leadership.

Prior to joining 38 Studios, Laff was a senior systems engineer and lead engineer at Electronic Arts’ Montreal development house. Laff played a key role in growing the new studio and in developing its first AAA IP title, Army of Two. At EA Los Angeles, Laff was the lead engineer on Medal of Honor: European Assault and the Xbox lead engineer on Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.

Prior to Electronic Arts, Laff served as a lead and senior software engineer at VR1/Jaleco Entertainment in Colorado, where he worked on MMO products Lost Continents and VR1 Crossroads, as well as other online titles including Ultracorps and Fighter Ace III. Laff’s extensive experience in the game industry spans a broad array of disciplines, including: online and networking, artificial intelligence, animation, audio, game authoring tools, optimization, game play systems, graphics, physics, relational databases and game server architectures.

Laff holds two degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder: a bachelor of science in computer science and a bachelor of arts in mathematics.