Akshay Ramesh Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, CA, US

• Developed an application in Unreal Engine to allow interior designers to turn floorplans into beautifully rendered 3D levels in real-time, all working in a web browser
• Profiled and optimized the application by writing data processing logic for our networked protocol in C++. Saw significant performance improvements by reducing packet size and improving speed
• Integrated Perforce with TeamCity and set up CI/CD with daily build deployments. Also set up automatic building of source code to distribute binaries to artists
• Refactored legacy systems and provided easy-to-use Blueprint events for technical artists to implement gameplay logic
• Conducted code reviews and helped technical artists with writing quality code
• Standardized Blueprint and C++ Codebase in line with Epic's recommendations

Los Angeles, California, US

• Technical lead on shipped projects - "Pico and Wave Present: The Calvin Harris Experience", a live VR show built using Unreal Engine and "Wave Presents: Justin Bieber", a virtual concert built in Unity and attended by.
• Built toolsets using Unreal Engine & Unity used by technical artists and broadcast engineers to build interactive, fully networked virtual concerts
• Built networked gameplay interactions, profiled & optimized VR performance to meet customer requirements
• Worked with Motion Capture and Facial Capture technology to capture performer motion in real-time and stream it into the application
• Other projects worked on include virtual concerts featuring The Weeknd, Alison Wonderland, Dylan Francis, Teflon Sega, and Pentakill

• Development on the MMO title Crowfall - which featured 24/7 live servers and fully persistent worlds
• Wrote client and server components for new gameplay systems in C#/Node JS
• Created tools to improve art and animator workflow, wrote data exporters and object inspectors
• Implemented UIs for navigation and menu systems
• Implemented a web socket based chat system, integrated 3rd party solutions and worked on social features
• Worked on Metrics reporting for game events

• Added new features to the AI system and prototyped new NPCs with designers
• Fixed bugs related to powers, VFX and gameplay systems
• Implemented player HUD improvements

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Assisted in design, prototyping and development of new products in Unity
• Worked on "Resolvers: Solution Steam", a third-person platformer and puzzle game, and "OOP Garage", a game to teach object-oriented programming for the Computer Science educational curriculum

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Member of the development team for the PC game Atlantis Prime, a third-person platformer built in Unity that teaches STEM concepts.
• Worked on development of the programming interface, a visual interface to input commands to robots
• Created tool to mange UI across different devices, used in other products teaching Robot-C
• Design and development of programming challenges and minigames

• Programmed and published the following titles on mobile Appstores - Richcoet: Retro Space Shooter for iOS using Cocos2D and Blox 3D (150,000+ downloads across Android, iOS, Windows and Kindle) using Unity 3D
• Developed Paranormal Camera, an AR project using Qualcomm Vuforia
• Integrated analytics into published games
• Contributed to game design and publishing of products

Master’S Degree, Entertainment Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science Engineering