Software Engineer - Gameplay

September 2021 - August 2024

• Led key engineering efforts across the full development cycle of MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries and its DLCs, optimizing gameplay systems and features for performance and scalability.
• Contributed to the development of MechWarrior 5: Clans, implementing real-time gameplay system enhancements to elevate player immersion.
• Developed and maintained game logic in C++ using Unreal Engine 4 and 5, ensuring seamless integration and system stability.
• Designed and implemented robust gameplay mechanics and UI/UX features, enriching player experience and engagement.

Intuitive Todo List

Developed a responsive Todo application using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS with persistent state management, filtering, and inline editing. Enhanced user experience by implementing smooth animations with Framer Motion, accessible UI components, and scalable, type-safe code architecture.

Hero Selection Menu System

Developed a modular character selection screen entirely in C++ using Unreal Engine 5, featuring dynamic filtering, lock state logic, and animation transitions. Emphasized performance and memory safety by implementing efficient widget creation and reuse patterns.

Playlist Automator

A Web application that automates porting over Spotify music playlist to Youtube music playlist. It integrates with YouTube and Spotify APIs, enabling users to authenticate, view their playlists, and transfer songs between platforms.

Pathfinding Algorithm Implementation

Implemented breadth first search and A* search algorithm from scratch using C++. Used Queue, map and 2d array for data structure with dynamic memory allocation with pointers to solve the problem.

Simplified Google Pagerank Algorithm

An application that mimics Google's pagerank algorithm to rank websites in their search engine results. Used object-oriented programming principles and operator overloaders to solve the problem.

Genetic Algorithm

An application that solves the travelling salesman problem using a genetic algorithm. Used object-oriented programming principles.

Easy Grocery

A mobile friendly web application that calculates calories each person needs to stay healthy. The app generates shopping list based on user's nutritional requirements. We used Firebase for database and Javascript for functionality.

Just Survive

A desktop top-down shooter game where a player is chased by randomly spawned enemies. Player has a choice of using pistols, laser, and bazooka to eliminate enemies and survive as long as he can for high score. Special features include infinite terrain where new tiles are constantly generated as player walks towards the edge and old tiles that are constantly destroyed.

Game of Life

Adesktop application that used object-oriented programming and polymorphism principles. A various life forms are simulated on a 2D board, each having special conditions on who can eat who and each life form consists of different behaviors and functions.

Floral Trauma

A desktop top-down isometric multiplayer shooter game where player has a variety of different abilities which include shooting, transforming, and spawning minions to fight other players.

Deep

A desktop application that checks if the uploaded image has been edited/photoshopped or not by comparing hex values of the image.

CST Test Bank

An ASP.net web application that puts together all the resources from lecture notes, google and Youtube which generates, and displays study questions and answers for students to help them study for exams.