Gary Makin Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Software engineer building Dolby Voice, a real-time scalable solution for online meetings, including conference room hardware. Product Manager for the Dolby.io API Service.• Lead engineer for Dolby conference phone management software • Backend built with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, & Redis; frontend with JavaScript, jQuery, and AngularJS • Stepped into the Product Manager responsibilities successfully driving product direction and roadmap development • Created the roadmap and release plans based on conference phone hardware releases and customer requests • Planned and drove the evolution of the software architecture • Developed UI design updates, keeping them in accordance with the existing design concepts • Worked closely with the Documentation, QA, Operations, and Support teams• Software engineer working in the core Dolby Voice team • Frontend and backend were developed in C++ for Linux, Windows and macOS, iOS, Android • Software included a low-latency tunnelling service for secure access through firewalls • Developed sample client applications, including for the internal service • Contributed to the CI/CD system, with automated building, unit/system testing, code coverage reports, and creation of deliverables• Development of various other digital products, including support sites and real-time applications, with web, desktop and mobile clients • Designed and developed service architectures independently and within a team, ensuring security. scalability, performance, and reliability • Designed the user interface for native and web applications• As Product Manager, created and managed the vision and roadmap for the initiative enhancing spatial communications in the Metaverse • Defined the business case and requirements for new features and SDKs, covering iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, browsers • Communicated the roadmap and requirements to the engineering team, actively discussing APIs and architectures, and incorporating their feedback

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Led a hybrid team, combining local novice coders and outsourced developers from India. • Worked with game designers, artists, and other programmers in developing prototypes of new games. • Feature development for the BigWorld MMO game middleware. • Real-time elements were developed in C++ and less critical sections in Python. • Mentored junior programmers

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Senior programmer researching and developing new print rendering technology. • Developed an innovative solution to a critical challenge in low memory rendering in C, resulting in a patent application.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Senior game programmer on a team creating a vertical slice of a massively multiplayer game proposal for Microsoft. • Implemented innovative coop-play game features. • Liaised with the game designers, level designers, artists and QA. • Created tools for internal use, based on understanding the game designers’ needs.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Collaborated on over 15 published strategy game titles, primarily as a programmer or lead programmer, while also contributing as a game and level designer, UX/UI designer, tester, and tool creator. • Ported Warlords to Mac, with a substantial UI update that influenced the direction for later releases in the series. • Developed games for Mac and Windows, both as a single programmer and collaboratively within a team. • Collaborated closely with game designers, level designers, and artists. • Mentored junior programmers. • Carriers at War II was the first released Mac game to support the PowerPC processor!

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Developed customer-facing support software for Sharp consumer hardware, leading a team of contractors.• Created the vision for the project that was presented to Sharp.• Designed the UI for the software.• Software was completed on time and on budget.