Leonard Tsai Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Working with Unity to optimize their graphics pipeline for AR/VR

San Francisco Bay Area

Developing features for Unity and Unreal Engine 4 to help developers create VR/AR applications

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

• Gameplay Programmer for Realm Royale.
• Developed a new animation system for creating generic weapon animations that can work across multiple characters in Realm Royale.
• Created new netcode for processing player inventory updates and weapon swapping.

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

• Gameplay Programmer for Paladins.
• Developed new champions for Paladins including Jenos, Ash, and Lex.
• Primary developer on new characters in Paladins which involves coding new abilities and behaviors, building new animation nodes, and helping solve issues and bugs with the characters’ design.
• Worked closely with UI/UX designers to create fluid in-game menus that drove gameplay and sales of in-game items using relational databases.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed Python scripts to parse timing reports for information provided by design engineers and outputted a summary of passed/failed logic times.
• Analyzed critical paths in the main processor for Microsoft’s Holo Lens using internal tools for logic timing.
• Programmed test programs for Vertix-7 FPGA to learn about its IDE and operation.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Rewrote LabView program as a Java plug-in for an open source microscopy software.
• Planned and coded a new state machine architecture and user friendly Swing GUI interface.
• Presented weekly updates on project through lab meetings

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Collaborated with other interns to analyze the effectiveness of rapid prototyping
• Designed and fabricated printed circuit boards for an RFID tracking system.
• Developed a Windows Form Application using C# that controlled the RFID system, webcam, and display.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Analyzed different algorithms for minimizing routing paths of swarm robots under the supervision of a PhD graduate.
• Simulated most efficient routing solution in MATLAB
• Executed final revision of the algorithm on a group of swarm robots whose objective was to play Fur Elise on a virtual piano.