● Led the largest engineering sub-team (5 engineers) from pre-production through multiple alpha/beta tests, overseeing major Unity systems work supporting gameplay, FTUE, UI, progression, localization, and tooling. ● Scaled the engineering team from 3 to 18; led hiring, mentoring, planning, prioritization, triaging and tech debt mitigation. ● Established studio engineering standards: source control workflow, CI pipelines, onboarding docs, and code review policies. ● Designed and implemented core RTS gameplay systems including unit selection, command dispatch, ability handling, entity lifecycle management, replay/spectator modes, and C++/C# (sim-client) interop. ● Developed a data-marshalling layer for transmitting frame data from the Sim (C++) to the Client (C#) using FlatBuffers and later extended this system to implement a 'map-flipping' strategy that massively reduced environment art workload. ● Engineered high-performance C# code using ECS-style patterns, Span, ref struct, and Unity’s low-level native APIs, leveraging the Burst Compiler and Job System to efficiently interpolate hundreds of entity transforms. ● Built custom object pools and a custom lifecycle framework to address known perf and scalability limitations in Unity. ● Created an MVVM/data-binding framework to enable rapid UI iteration and minimize engineering overhead.

● Assumed ownership of a struggling team facing challenges, tech debt, and instability, and led a cultural and technical turnaround. ● Rebuilt team culture, transforming it from reactive to proactive by repairing relationships, aligning with long-term goals, and establishing clear responsibilities. ● Established structure and process, including SLAs, JIRA planning, onboarding documentation, and code reviews, while reducing a 600+ bug backlog to double digits by integrating bug triage into sprint planning. ● Partnered with the Technical Director to mentor engineers, define team values, and enhance engineering culture, emphasizing collaboration, mentorship, and shared accountability. ● Absorbed automation team responsibilities, taking on DevOps, CI/CD, and Build pipeline ownership, while continuing to improve Unity and in-house editors, tools, and workflows—without compromising team cohesion.

● Modernized the legacy MFC/C++ editor by transitioning to C#, WPF with MVVM while refining and building upon the established architecture and systems integral to the Diablo franchise. ● Led code generation efforts by replacing Diablo III’s C++ macros with a custom markup schema to generate compatible C++ and C# data structures (models), view models and dependency data. ● Added C++ serialization support for polymorphic data structures, dictionaries, optional fields and template types. ● Developed a generic property grid editor using C# reflection to enable dynamic editing of diverse asset types. Added advanced features like drag-and-drop, multi-editing, filtering, and deep copy/paste. ● Created a robust, searchable asset tree using async / await; a virtual folder system allowing logical organization of asset data without impacting source control; and architected an Asset Outliner to separate the hierarchy of complex asset data from its atomic field data, keeping the UI/UX clean and easy to use when working with heavy nesting. ● Extensively profiled tools and improved WPF performance utilizing such techniques as visual tree pruning, deferred loading of data templates, resource freezing & efficient merging of resource dictionaries. ● Created custom tool suites for editing complex data like effect groups, condition tree & AI behaviours.

● Additional Engineering Credit on Overwatch after completing a 2-month "tour of duty" focused on tools development.

● Developed tools to support the console port of Diablo III (Xbox 360 / PS3), enabling console-specific data overrides without the need to patch or impact live PC/Mac asset data. ● Created a cross-platform deployment tool (C++ / Qt) for managing builds across Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, & PS4 dev kits.

● Refactored, maintained, and improved ‘Axe’, the team's legacy in-house editor (C++ / MFC), improving functionality & UX. ● Delivered new tools including 3D Transform Gizmos, Monster Distribution Previewer, Procedural Dungeon Generation Visualizer and VO/Localization recording status tracking. ● Built a C# launcher app to ensure the team always ran the latest tools and were synced with the correct Perforce branch and dataset according to discipline. ● Engineered a system to automatically integrate data-changes across branches and empower users to resolve merge conflicts.

● Led tools development team (5 engineers) during ‘Fable III’ pre-production, focused on enhancing the Fable editor (C#).

● Developed plug-ins for terrain editing, object manipulation, hit-testing, asset importers, and breakables. ● Maintained C++ interop layer between editor and engine for smooth runtime integration.

● Research work in the 'Mixed Reality Lab' focusing on ubiquitous computing and automation of the home.

● One year placement before attending university with the 'Year In Industry'.