Received AGDA (Australian Game Developer Awards) for Excellence in Impactful Games, 2023.Spearheaded backend development, enhancing game's core functionalities, performance, and user experience.Developed audio systems, including pooling and custom psychoacoustic compression algorithms, ensuring optimal audio delivery.Designed i18n compliant translation and dialogue systems, broadening game's global accessibility; including fuzzy sentence matching.Implemented advanced systems for… Show more Received AGDA (Australian Game Developer Awards) for Excellence in Impactful Games, 2023.Spearheaded backend development, enhancing game's core functionalities, performance, and user experience.Developed audio systems, including pooling and custom psychoacoustic compression algorithms, ensuring optimal audio delivery.Designed i18n compliant translation and dialogue systems, broadening game's global accessibility; including fuzzy sentence matching.Implemented advanced systems for efficient O(1) entity lookup, type-safe generic settings management and serialisation, player interactions, and quest management.Pioneered tools for direct data import from spreadsheets, optimising real-time data accessibility; along with custom editor tools to streamline development processes, and automated transitioning to the URP rendering pipeline.Leveraged caching, smart lookups, lazy initialisation, property notifications, IL emission, and asynchronous paradigms to boost game performance and responsiveness. Show less

Designed and implemented an interactive Python-based data visualisation tool for a client.Enhanced user engagement through intuitive scatter plots with draggable nodes, and custom filtering and fuzzy search utilities for tables.Ported to both C# WPF and Qt for cross-platform support, along with implementations of automated contact/bug report registration forms with direct-to-inbox linkage, abstract settings interfaces for dynamic repaints, and visual flair via UI animation.