Stephan Ziep is a Head of Engineering at nugg.ad. He possess expertise in game development, xbox 360, perforce, unrealscript, c# and 17 more skills. He is proficient in English. Colleagues describe him as "I worked with Stephan for over 8 years and we went through all the highs and lows of game development during that time. Stephan always had a high level of motivation for quality. He would be making suggestions and fill the gaps in design documents to get the best quality possible. As a gameplay and UI programmer he would always try to see the user perspective and improve his work based on that. Thanks to his ability to create great graphics for UI by himself he could come up with new ideas or iterate on existing ones in a fast and efficient manner. His interest in quality also covers quality of code. He tries as much as possible (restricted by the tools and the project situation) to write well structured and easy to use and read code. It was usually him that pointed out places where refactoring would improve the code or the feature. While working in the trenches of C++ game development he never lost his appetite for new ways in the programming world. That way he became the "goto-guy" for C# or .Net related issues in our team. Stephan really is a team person. He is a person you will find easy to like and working with him is great. He definitely was a great addition to our programming team and it will be hard to replace him." and "Stephan is a great developer that makes sure that he stays on top of current trends in the programming world. He has a very honest and pragmatic working attitude, which I found to be extremly useful and that is also nicely reflected in his strong analytical skills for choosing the best approach for the task at hand. This kind of honesty also extends to the way he communicates with his co-workers. He is excellent at seeing directly through harmful group thinking and even more importantly, he has the capability to call it out without becoming the negative or grumpy guy. He is a really nice down-to-earth guy with a great sense for team spirit and that is just fun to have around. I would gladly work again with him at some date. He is a very valuable addition to any team."