Developed and onboarded new team members to core game architecture. Worked closely with product, art, and QA on both production and live games; seamlessly assumed and improved team engineering conventions. Mentored three (3) interns to full-time offers.

• Horizon (unreleased) - Prototyped flocking and steering algorithms in Unreal Engine
• Frontier (unreleased) - Developed client-server architecture and state replication scheme for real-time multiplayer game in Unity
• War Dragons - Delivered features and bugfixes for 3D build-and-battle experience on iOS and Android
• Casual (studio) - Maintained live-ops monthly agile release cycle

• Tutored students in data structures and OOP concepts

Turing Scholars Honors Program. Emphasis in game technology and physics.

• GPA: 3.5/4.0

• Independent research work combining L-system tree generation with soft-body dynamics
• Modeled plants with wind, rain, and fire effects
• Runner-up for UTCS Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award 2012

Designed and built a 2D physics engine in C++ with OpenGL and SDL, featuring:

• Convex-polygon-based collision detection
• Impulse-based rigid-body dynamics with stacking and friction + Verlet-based soft-body dynamics

Languages: proficient C# familiar C++, Objective-C
Engines: proficient Unity familiar Unreal Engine
Other: proficient Git familiar Perforce, HTML/CSS

Speaks Mandarin and Shanghainese; once survived for a week in Japan. Plays piano acceptably; produces recognizable tunes on the guitar and ocarina. Able to deadlift three hundred and thirty-three (333) pounds.