Resume

Technical Lead & Gameplay Programmer / Pawlarity / Team of 26 — Unreal Engine, C++

• Directed, delegated, and supported 80+ deliverables utilizing a Kanban-style Agile workflow.
• Engineered magnetic attraction and repulsion systems for free, pivoted, and spline-constrained interactions, enabling designers to independently author 10+ levels.
• Evaluated player feedback from iterative playtests to create actionable engineering deliverables, eliminating dozens of usability and stability issues across continuous build cycles.
• Instrumented remappable controller and keyboard support for local co-op with device-sensitive UI/UX.

Solo Developer / ROW — Unity, C#

• Simulated the kinesthetic experience of rowing a boat using realistic offset force curves, physically based water with buoyancy, per-axis drag, animation blending/layering, and spatial audio.
• Developed a robust water shader implementing depth-based transparency, vertex-displaced waves, dynamic foam, and buoyancy.

Graphics Programmer / Phantom Penumbra / Team of 5 — Custom Engine, C++

• Developed a bespoke 2D batch rendering pipeline using OpenGL/GLFW/STBI, reducing draw calls by 99%.
• Engineered a cache-coherent particle system supporting over 100k particles and offering designers animated flipbooks, color & scale over lifetime, emission shape, and velocity/acceleration curves.
• Architected a dynamic 2D lighting system, utilizing bespoke GLSL shaders, supporting multiple moving light sources and shadow casters.

Gameplay Programmer / Magnet Opus / Team of 4 — Unity, C#

• Implemented enemy AI behaviors and pathfinding using FSMs and waypoint graphs.
• Developed a 2D character controller capable of transitioning between wall-sliding/jumping, hanging from ceilings/ledges, pulling/pushing off surfaces, running, and walking.

Additional Project Experience

• Engineered a custom A* pathfinding implementation, achieving 2.56x faster runtimes than baseline.
• Architected command-pattern/action list sequencing for a digital card game, handling hundreds of concurrent dynamic actions and animations with custom easing, time scaling, grouping, and reversibility.
• Built bespoke telemetry systems logging 3000+ actions and associated metadata into exportable formats.
• Developed automated test suites and profile-driven playthrough simulations across multiple projects, intercepting 50+ defects pre-commit and validating intended user experiences.