Ralph Egas Email & Phone Number

Valkenswaard, Nl

Founded Abstraction in 2007 as a Sole Proprietor and incorporated in 2011. We specialise in game conversions and on demand game development.

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Mostly strategy, involving technology decisions, foster technological innovation, pitching technology plans to the owner, Playlogic Games International N.V.

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I have a set of studio wide technical responsibilities. To name a few here: recruitment of technical staff, providing Managing Director with advice governing buying hard- & software, restructuring working models (version control, code reviewing), monitoring competence and facilitating technical staff training, technical representative towards investors and publishers.

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I was put cold into a game project that had been in progress for a year. I did some work on a graphical particle system very rich on physical features, fast cubic spline integration techniques for C2 continuous camera movement and lots of other stuff that had to be done really quickly. Afterwards I rewrote a big part of graphical engine related stuff to get it better scalable and managable.After finishing this project I worked for half a year on some innovative technique for visualising fluid while staying clear from the well known but at that time pattented method.Finally I became Lead Programmer on a new project, where I mostly worked on some innovative technique to combine ultra realistic graphics with a low-end platform in a rather unorthodox way, trading some interaction. Besides working on this technology I led a team of over 5 programmers.

Advising role informing head office about what technology to acquire, what technology to focus on and how to leverage technology to increase business opportunities.Also tried cultivating agile working methods in order for the teams to grow commitment, deliver in short iterations, gain flexibility and carry out improvements autonomously

Advising role informing head office about what technology to acquire, what technology to focus on and how to leverage technology to increase business opportunities.Also tried cultivating agile working methods in order for the teams to grow commitment, deliver in short iterations, gain flexibility and carry out improvements autonomously

Advising role informing head office about what technology to acquire, what technology to focus on and how to leverage technology to increase business opportunities.Also tried cultivating agile working methods in order for the teams to grow commitment, deliver in short iterations, gain flexibility and carry out improvements autonomously

Advising role informing head office about what technology to acquire, what technology to focus on and how to leverage technology to increase business opportunities.Also tried cultivating agile working methods in order for the teams to grow commitment, deliver in short iterations, gain flexibility and carry out improvements autonomously

While practising game programming since a kid, my professional carreer as a game programmer really took off here. I learned tons of new things about code and design here during the first three months in a professional environment. After that I mostly refined my skills involving communicating with designers, artists and product managers while doing some nifty graphics and generic game programming related coding.

Mostly busy introducing novel software architectures for new line of games we were working on

Head of IT department.Worked with two other collegues on the company's internal CRM system, fully 3-tier component based using ASP, Sql Server 7, C++ ATL components and VBScript.I was responsible for architecture, version control and releasing / publishing / migrating and deployment, user training.

Me and a study collegue of mine started a company delivering custom web applications for small companies. Our clients were typically retailers, food suppliers, apothecaries, etc. The applications were mostly derivatives of order information systems.Eventhough I learned a lot in terms of B2B and client interviews as well as being an entrepreneur the venture never really took off. In retrorespect I guess we didn't know how to think big and form a liaison with designing and art, while small companies lost interest in small scale custom applications over the years that came following the dotCom hype. Still, we made some decent money as students.

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelors, Computer Science