John Byrd is the principal and founder of Gigantic Software. He has seventeen years of experience in the video game industry. John founded the United States division of CRI Middleware, the most successful middleware developer in Japan. John has served as a director of development at Sega and as a senior project manager at Electronic Arts. John has also served as an editor for the popular “Game Programming Gems” series of books. John has a BA in computer science from Harvard College.
