Aaron Hedquist Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Senior software engineer working on VR games, using Unreal Engine and C++, with an emphasis on gameplay and graphics.Engineer on Moss: Book II, which won VR Game of the Year at The Game Awards.

Seattle, WA, US

• Built and tested features for the Moment Pro Camera app
• Developed Metal compute and render shaders for photographic tools, such as waveform, histogram, and focus peaking displays
• Improved energy efficiency and performance of Metal-based components
• Wrote App Store review responses, solicited feedback from beta testers, and corresponded daily with users
• Lead daily scrums, prioritized user stories and bugs, and encouraged agile workflow concepts
• Wrote constructive code reviews and led architecture improvements by example

Seattle, Washington, US

• Managed 3-6 colleagues, being iOS and web developers.
• Led scrums by worked with product managers to validate technical feasibility, scope, and estimations to keep our team delivering on time
• Fostered collaboration with architecture and strategy discussions
• Supported team members by doing all the small things to keep them on task and focused, working on the features that most suit them.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Prototyped a myriad of new image and video annotation tools, gamification features.
• Created a video tool to track moving vehicles.
• Prototyped AR features with Metal
• Contributed wireframes and final mobile designs
• Specialized in improving graphics performance
• Helped reduce crashes to < 1%.

Seattle, WA, US

Member of UW's iOS and Mac Application Development program Advisory Board

• Co-founded and led design and development at this boutique iOS development studio that focused on imaginative apps for children.
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Road Rally, Disney’s first “Appisode,” which added interactive games and activities into an episode of the animated TV show.
• Pillowcapers, a beautiful, hand-animated storybook. Prototyped and developed an innovative rubber-band page turn interaction.
• Tiny Tiger and Friends, a self-produced illustrated activity app for kids. Featured by Daily Candy. Led development, art direction, and designed the user experience.

Seattle, WA, US

Aided students as they learned the Objective-C programming language and built applications for Mac and iOS. Reviewed assignments with feedback to the student how they could improve their work, worked with students the better understand important development concepts.

Seattle, WA, US

• Lead front-end iOS development for this boutique mobile agency.
• Developed working prototypes in collaboration with the design team
• Created conceptual design and wireframes for client pitches
• Contributed to the development of our client apps from end to end

Worked closely with Design Director Gabe Kean on studio projects, mainly involving designing and building multimedia applications and installations for museums. Created experience schematics, interface design and style guides, functional prototypes, and animations. With those elements I completed final deliverables in Flash using AS 3.0 and object-oriented.

Seattle, WA, US

Designed and developed a variety of multimedia web sites and applications, mainly using Flash technology. Programmed in AS 2.0 using OOP concepts when it was applicable.Clients included Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft, The Seattle Opera, San Francisco Symphony, The Mars Mission, and PBS Kids.

Seattle, WA, US