Gavin Irby is a lead designer at Bungie, Inc., where he works on the Destiny franchise. He has spent his career helping build online game worlds that support thousands of simultaneous players, including Rift: Planes of Telara, Wildstar, and Pirates of the Burning Sea. Prior to entering the games industry, Gavin attended the University of Virginia as a graduate student in the History of Religions Department, where he specialized in Sri Lankan Buddhism and Hinduism.