Daniel Armstrong Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Contributed to the Frostbite engine and another internal game engine using C++ and C# to build out engine features.• Built custom high level automation frameworks for our titles and custom game engines. Led the process for QA being upskilled in writing automation scripts for this framework.• Collaborated with both local and international product teams to identify requirements and guide the development of high-value features, evaluating their impact to align with business needs.• Led the development and implementation of an accessibility framework, enhancing customer experience by enabling personalization across various tools and applications. This initiative improved platform accessibility and empowered users to tailor experiences to their needs, positioning us as a leader in user-centric solutions.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

My role entailed spearheading the creation, implementation, and management of tools and technologies designed to foster a transition towards automation.• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Jenkins, automating processes for increased efficiency, and ensuring swift, reliable software releases. This included setting up build environments, managing merge requests, performing code reviews, and handling automated deployments.• Played a pivotal role in designing and constructing a device farm management system, automating test suites across hundreds of devices, reducing manual QA testing by over 80% while improving coverage.• Worked on and shipped titles in the Sims and Need For Speed franchises.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Served as the lead gameplay programmer on a console title that sold over 500k copies. It's f2p sister title went on to achieve 3 million PC downloads and account activations.• Designed, programmed, and shipped more than 10 successful titles across multiple PC and console platforms, demonstrating versatility and cross-platform development skills through various distribution methods.• Built a hybrid deferred engine supporting features such as SSAO, FXAA, and a custom cross-platform scripting language.• Developed image-based automated test frameworks, reducing asset-based regression issues by more than 80%.• Implemented a hybrid peer-to-peer to server networking architecture, cutting cloud hosting costs for a major project by over 50%.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Recognized as the optimisation Lead for our projects, I streamlined various areas to maintain high performance. This included optimizing content loading, AI, pathfinding, network data, shader code, memory consumption, and memory management, enhancing overall efficiency and game performance.• Developed, and deployed custom large-scale CMS solutions for the trucking industry, enabling scalability and improving ROI per unit by over 10%.

Bachelor'S Degree Game Design & Programming, Computer Game Development And C++

Ccnp, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications

Ccna, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications