Cyber Intern
Cryptic Vector · Time Worked: May 2026 - Aug 2026
- Did security analysis on large scale C/C++ system.
Experience
Summer Game Design Intern
IndieCade · Time Worked: June 2025 - July 2025
- Interns took part in the 2024 IndieCade Climate Jam, alongside work like drafting plans for how a game can push environmental causes.
- Formed a team of 8 within the jam to build Frogology, a conservation simulator made in Unity and C# with two other programmers.
- Owned the animal behavior and the quest system, in a loop that has you learning about nearby animals while catching them.
- Animals traverse the map toward points of interest, moving toward prey and away from predators.
- They detect each other within a field of view or a radius, emulating sight and hearing, and avoid collisions as they move.
- Out of range and out of sight, animals dematerialize, so the map keeps living without paying for the physics.
- Built the overarching branching quest system, plus a Unity editor tool laying out quest connections and contents visually.
- An editor tool for dialogue that branches on completed quests came out of the same work.
- Gated most progression behind it: sleeping, dialogue branches and catching certain animals, with saving for quest and species progress.
Associate Game Engineer
Storm Flag Games · Time Worked: Jan 2025 - June 2025
- Worked on the C++ game client for a large scale MMO.
- Debugged the animation system of the client.
- Patched transparency handling, removing crashes and animation spasms.
- Adjusted mousepicking to work with animated models.
- Implemented a dirty flagging system for animating previously static objects.
- Patched an SQLite save corruption bug and implemented save repair functionality.
- Added Lua functions exposing more of the client's graphics engine to scripters.
Projects
Skyline Engine
C++ game engine with Vulkan and WebGPU renderers.
- A general purpose engine in the long run, and for now a place for the team to dig into whatever each of us finds interesting.
- Worked on the WebGPU backend of the renderer and the entity component system.
- Using Dawn WebGPU, implemented cascaded shadow mapping that drops shadow resolution for objects further away.
- Used dynamically scaling buffers and instanced rendering to improve performance.
- Organized a shared interface between the Vulkan and WebGPU renderers, and the CMake system for building against either.
- Created the initial draft of the entity component system that the team later expanded on.
The Last Cup
A 3D puzzle platformer made with UVA SGD.
- Made with UVA SGD over Fall 2025, one of five developers on a 3D puzzle platformer built in Unity 6.
- Programmed the straw squirt mechanic: water projectiles fired from the straw tip, their impacts, and the layer rules that keep them from colliding with each other.
- Wrote the rat hazard: rats walk a pipe node to node and reverse at the ends, and a water projectile stuns them, so the squirt mechanic is what counters them.
- Split the pipe routes out into their own component, so a level can lay out new paths without touching the rat code.
- Built the death screen fade and wired it to the checkpoint respawn.
- Extended the starter third person controller and added pitch variation to the projectile audio.
Flight Render Project
C++ and OpenGL project made to learn rendering.
- A learning exercise in C++ and rendering as a whole: the program loads models and lets you insert lights of different types.
- Built with Visual Studio Code, OpenGL, GLSL and C++, using SDL and Assimp. Models were pulled from The Models Resource.
- Learned the basics of vertex specification, and implemented lights of different types and fields through GLSL.
- Used Assimp to process 3D models into usable vertices and textures, and texture arrays to load several textures onto one mesh.
- Built a cube map texture for the skybox, and applied quaternions and linear algebra for transform matrices.
- Wrote a render manager that simplifies loading many instances of a model and different light types.
- A UV system automatically generates custom UVs for texture arrays, offsetting whatever padding is required.
- A transform class homogenizes moving, rotating and scaling, with parent transforms for relative placement, and specular maps vary reflection across a model.
Strand
A survival roguelike about fending off zombies.
- Started as a project of a game development club I founded, worked on during meetings by about 8 people, and continued solo after my graduation.
- Made in Unity and C# with GitHub for source control. The loop is collecting scrap while fending off zombies.
- Acted as project lead and directed art and music, and drew a good share of the pixel art myself in Piskel.
- Programmed the randomly generating map: a grid of rooms, each assigned a difficulty, function and set of opening directions.
- Wrote a text processor that turns values in a .txt file into room layouts, which rooms are then assigned at random to match their openings, function and difficulty.
- Designed a resource room system that places them at dead ends to stop aimless wandering.
- Handled enemy behavior design and development: 6 unique types on a shared base class giving them finite hp, a stun state and the ability to be grabbed.
- Their movement ranges from walking at the player to flying around them and firing projectiles.
- Programmed weapon behavior, split between normal scrap and golden scrap, the latter with unusual properties like teleportation or projectiles.
Head Hunters
A funk themed turn based strategy game.
- A personal project started and finished in high school, made in Unity and C# with GitHub for source control.
- You command three characters against six bosses. Each character can shoot, use a special move, or step to an adjacent tile, and the bosses have the same options.
- Built the turn system around a queue of events and actions, which also carries status effects and the messages shown between turns.
- Special moves run from slowing an enemy to rigging a character to explode a set number of turns later.
- Enemies share every ability the player has, so their AI scores each action by priority points, weighted by the type of action and the path taken to reach it.
- Tuning those priority values produces new behavior without touching any code.
- Selecting a special move highlights both the tiles it can be cast on and the tiles it would affect.
- Animated the art myself, feeding illustrations through Unity's animation system, and wrote the music in MuseScore, leaning hard into funk and rock.
- Named after the Herbie Hancock album, with many bosses themed on records and artists I liked at the time.
Game Jams
Remanent of Davy's Crew
A horror game based around fending off ghosts.
- Made for the 2024 Husky Jam on the theme "Lighthouse", in Unity and C# with two other programmers.
- Wrote the ship, sea monster and ghost ship AI.
- Designed level system and enemy spawn rates.
Riptide Gardens
A farming game with a constantly shifting base.
- Made for the Spring 2D Jam '24 in Unity and C#: escape starvation by planting a garden on an ever-shifting island.
- Built 10 plants sharing a base of timed food production and no water placement, from plain producers to ones that help or sabotage their neighbors.
Checking In
A satirical hospital clerk simulator.
- Made for Ludum Dare 54 on the theme "Limited Space".
- Created functionality to admit, waitlist or reject a queue of patients.
- Built the patient generator on top of a teammate's data, and the room vacancy and waitlist system deciding who can be admitted.