Cory Ondrejka

Who is Cory Ondrejka?

As CTO at Linden Lab, Cory Ondrejka leads the team developing "Second Life," Linden

Lab's award-winning, user-created digital world. His team has created

the revolutionary technologies required to enable collaborative,

atomistic creation, including distributed physical simulation, 3D

streaming, completely customizable avatars and real-time, in-world

editors. He also spearheaded the decision to allow users to retain the

IP rights to their creations and helped craft Linden's virtual real

estate policy.

Prior to joining Linden Lab in November, 2000, Ondrejka served as

Project Leader and Lead Programmer for Pacific Coast Power and Light.

At PCPL, he brought the "Road Rash" franchise to the Nintendo for

the first time with "Road Rash 64" and built the core technology teams

that completed multiple products for Nintendo and Sony consoles.

Previous experience includes Lead Programmer for Acclaim Coin-Operated

Entertainment's first internal coin-op title and work on Department of

Defense electronic warfare software projects for Lockheed Sanders.

While an officer in the United States Navy, he worked at the National

Security Agency and graduated from the Navy Nuclear Power School.

Ondrejka is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he was

a Presidential "Thousand Points of Light" recipient and became the

first person to earn Bachelors of Science degrees in two technical

majors: Weapons and Systems Engineering and Computer Science.