Professional Experience

Summary:

• Part of the core tech team focused on platform stability and performance, supporting a number of critical unannounced projects.
• Exploring LLM-assisted workflows (Claude Code) to streamline performance analysis across multiple platforms.

Summary:

Fall Guys: Crown Jam

• Worked on Fall Guys Crown Jam from prototype to release in UEFN, collaborating closely with design to prototype gameplay mechanics.
• Evaluated early-stage UEFN tech options, balancing project deadlines with broader organisational goals.
• Focused on core tech and game performance, coordinating with internal teams to bring new tech into Crown Jam and ensure game stability.

Summary:

Fall Guys

• Headed and scaled up the Engine team from 6 to 15 engineers, driving planning and pre-production of the mobile release.
• Took on key IC responsibilities, driving cross-team initiatives critical to mobile, including end-to-end distribution pipelines, Epic Games Store integration, CDN strategy, boot/loading time improvements, and build size reduction.
• Led the optimisation efforts for Creative mode, identifying performance bottlenecks and coordinating across multiple teams to improve game stability (memory usage, FPS, and load times).
• Worked closely with external partners to bring support for PS5, Xbox, and Switch for the Free-for-All release, while continuing to own PS4, performance, and profiling work during releases.
• Managed and mentored senior engineers, delivered studio-wide workshops and documentation to help teams take ownership of performance, tooling, and platform development.

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• Led the client engineering team on Temple Run: Treasure Hunters, scaling from 4 to 8 engineers, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to plan upcoming features and ensure live-ops readiness.
• Improved development workflows by implementing automation pipelines in Jenkins, and developed custom tools, reducing error-prone manual tasks.
• Led the optimisation efforts, including profiling and enforcing art/tech budgets during the metagame redesign.
• Delivered the “Idle mode” metagame feature from prototype to production, collaborating closely with design, art, and tech art.

Summary:

I led the following projects (with the exception of Happy Studio) from pre-production through to release– getting involved with client requirements, technical design documentation, prototyping and managing the relevant app store submissions.

• Tate 'Modigliani' VR (Link): A VR experience developed for Tate Modern’s Modigliani exhibition.
• Utah Climate Challenge (Link): A multiplayer game developed in Unity using the High-Level Network API for the Natural History Museum of Utah.
• Supersaurs (Link, Link): An iOS and Android AR companion app for the book “Supersaurs 1: Raptors of Paradise”.
• Happy Studio (Link Google Play, Link App Store): Developed new features, worked with AR and facial recognition technologies.

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Atom Universe

• Developed gameplay features for mini-games, including the complete implementation of a multiplayer bowling game.
• Profiled and optimized levels, integrated analytics support, and implemented platform-specific features for PS4.

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Fable Legends

• Developed gameplay and UI features focused on player retention and engagement.
• Contributed to the UI core tech, developing UI features and optimising the in-house UE4 WPF framework.
• Contributed to the Windows UWP port.

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• Magic Origins: Worked on the PlayStation 4 port of the game. Additionally, developed UI and gameplay features, helped with refactoring and optimisation.
• Magic 2015 - Duels of the Planeswalkers: Worked on developing UI related gameplay features in Lua and C++.