Work on custom game- and engine-related tools for Unreal Engine game development, mostly relating to internal engine aspects (performance, asset packaging, game introspection)
Unreal Engine 4/5 consulting
Advising clients on issues relating to Unreal Engine, in particular: explaining and reducing differences between projects in Unreal Engine and Unity; preparing games for porting to different platforms (PS4/PS5/XSX/HTML5) and advising on platform limitations, requirements, and changes needed; helping with portability of plugin code between different versions of Unreal (between 4.26 and 5.3)
Research and documentation
Research into various topics relating to Unreal Engine and target platforms for client projects; writing comprehensive documentation, for research conclusions as well as describing the codebase and rationales for decisions made
Mentoring and judging
Mentoring of final-year Algonquin College game development students and their capstone projects, advising in programming and game design topics; judging game development competitions for multiple higher-learning institutions
Creating a game design document for a 2D Metroidvania for a licensed IP; Creating a game design document for an original action platformer; Creating multimedia presentations to promote the above games to investors/publishers; Creating the design for a small internal prototype project; Leading the game design team and meetings during the pre-production of the projects; Consulting with other team members on game design
Game development
Work on minigames for a minigame collection game in Unity; Prototyping a multiplayer game network engine; Creating movement systems for platform games with arbitrary geometry
Game porting
Porting Unreal Engine 4 game to Nintendo Switch
Supervision
Supervision and mentorship of interns and workshop attendees; Producing and advice on projects created by student workshop attendees
Translation and editorial work
Editing, correction and translation work on several games (Polish ⮀ English)
Other
Judge for the Team Game Development Competition at the IT Institute of the Faculty of Technical Physics, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (FTIMS) at the Lodz University of Technology (purely in English)
Maintenance and improvement of C#/XAML audio tools built using the MVVM and IoC patterns; both front-end and back-end work; communication with external audio framework via different generic as well as automotive-specific protocols; bug fixing
Communication protocol development
Helping improve communication protocols for the full stack of user ⮀ vehicle technologies; improving tools for simulating/debugging said stack
Documentation
Collating and compiling the knowledge base on a large, multi-team project; creating hyperlinked diagrams of the various levels of the project, from the most general to the most specific; collaborating with other teams and team members to share and expand the knowledge and fill missing gaps
Consultations
Advising clients and product owners on best hardware and software solutions; rapidly acquiring new technical knowledge to improve the accuracy of the advice
Porting games from PlayStation 4 to PC with Steamworks; input handling and translation between keyboard and gamepad; handling of multiple different input devices
Bug fixing
Code cleanup and refactoring; bug and porting issues fixes; investigation into PC compatibility issues, e.g. FPU/vector processing issues
Tool development
Writing a custom binary archive/resource reader/viewer for baked and precompiled game data
2014Gameplay Programmer at IntoXicate Studios
Game and engine programming
Work on Afterfall: Reconquest; work in Unreal Engine 3, both with UnrealScript as well as C++ engine source code; adding gameplay and UI features; creating and modifying tools; refactoring legacy code; Unreal build system work; external module integration (Bink, Steam)
Bug fixing and optimization
Bug fixing and simplification of legacy code (AI, gameplay, UI); work with existing developers to improve overall code quality; rendering and resource management optimization (Unreal Engine, C++, UnrealScript)
Game and level element design
Improvements to existing gameplay and level elements; design of new gameplay elements; work with level designers and artists on implementation details; across-the-board work in Unreal Editor and associated tools
VCS setup
Setup of, and transitioning to, Mercurial-based source code versioning system; developer training
Website re-write
Porting of Afterfall: Reconquest website from unnecessarily complex and static CMS version, to a simple, personal CMS solution (PHP, MySQL, HTML+CSS+JS, UX)
Work on multi-platform software for dedicated embedded multimedia hardware; design of interfaces and module interoperability layers
Embedded OpenGL profiling and optimization
Writing profiling code for rendering system for real-time data visualization on embedded hardware; creating proposals for, and implementing generic, as well as GLES3-specific optimizations
Consulting with international clients
International travel to client sites for consulting purposes; integration with client team and workflow
Note: Most of the above deliberately vague on account of strict project security and non-disclosure agreements
2009 - 2014 Programmer at Teyon
Game design and development
Multiple games utilizing several different game and graphics engines, both provided in-house as well as custom-made; Games for resource-constrained devices like the Nintendo DS/3DS, iPhone/iPad; Games for the browser (Flash/ActionScript); Some technologies for said games (e.g. GUI and animation libraries, localization libraries); Development primarily with C/C++, with some scripting languages (Lua and Python)
Engine design and development
Developing and improving numerous aspects of the in-house game engine (software/hardware rendering, asset loading, OS/API integration) for different platforms (DS/3DS, iPad/iPhone, PC with OpenGL); Working under tight resource and hardware constraints; Designing and developing a custom game engine for multiple platforms (PC, Mac, Linux, iOS), both the frontend (asset loading/parsing, game structure, scripting) as well as the backend (rendering, filesystem, debugging/logging, threading, memory management, sound playback, platform/locale interoperability, social APIs)
Tool design and development
Design and creation of both tools for personal use as well as tools for internal company game design and creation, e.g. a game creation and build tool for a specific genre, built in C#
Network administration
Simple network and server configuration management; web and VCS server setup
Code maintenance and porting
Fixing and maintaining existing codebases; porting games from PC to the Nintendo DS/3DS and iPhone/iPad
Legend:90% - idiomatic knowledge and writing skill;70% - comprehensive knowledge and ability to write correct programs;50% - ability to write correct programs;30% - able to read and reason about most constructs;10% - able to understand the basic idea behind a language/technology and recognize some constructs
Stanislaw Wyspianski High School, Lodz, Matura Exam
2008-2009
University of Lodz, Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, field of study: Informatics/Computer Science
2009
Lodz University of Technology, Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics, field of study: Computer Science
Interests and Hobbies
• Game design, development, and analysis
• Tabletop games
• Information technology and programming
• Computer and programming language history
• Programming language design
• Speculative fiction
• Philosophy
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