Coursework

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Programming Game Engines

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• Creating a game engine from scratch utilizing DirectX 11 API and C++
• Contributions:
  • Wrote graphics rendering pipeline, implemented shaders for phong & unlit lighting and animation skinning in HLSL
  • Developed vector and matrix math library
  • Created camera class and light classes
  • Implemented JSON parsers to load level and object data from text
  • Optimized memory usage by creating asset caches

Advanced Gameplay Programming in Unreal Engine

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• Contributions:
  • Developed a top-down third person puzzle game implementing player logic, puzzle systems, physics & animation
  • Built a fully networked FPS game with chat features and save game functionality using Unreal Engine replication & online subsystem

Video Game Programming

• Programmed 9 2D/3D games using SDL library and C++
  • Implemented features including delta time, actor classes, collision components, sprite animations, A* pathfinding, Enemy AI behaviors, 2D/3D player controllers

Robotics

• Using concepts of localization, mapping, and filtering
• Applying dynamics and kinematics to simulate robot perception and motion in Python and ROS

Computer Graphics

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• Developed 3 projects in C++ and OpenGL, implementing cameras, shaders, mesh-loading, and ray-casting

Computer Systems

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• Programmed in C, learning foundations of computer systems hardware organization
  • Assembly Operations, Stack Procedure Calls, Caches, Virtual Memory, Heap Management
  • Learned to read, write, and debug in assembly, completing course projects requiring decoding of disassembly using GDB
  • Wrote code to run buffer overflow attacks by loading binary code onto stacks and utilizing return address jumps
  • Wrote cache memory simulation program and evaluated its performance, debugging in valgrind
  • Developed a custom version of C’s ‘malloc’, ‘free’, and ‘realloc’ for dynamic memory allocation

Multimedia Systems Design

• Implementing industry-wide image, video, and audio compression algorithms including JPEG, MPEG, and MP3

Virtual Production in LED Volumes

• Working on set for 6 live-action film projects
• Assisting with Unreal Engine 5.4 debugging, graphics optimization, and tech art