Technical Design Lead | Project Glint
My real passion for game development is in creating great experiences for players, interacting with a community, and innovating in that space.
After 8 years of Software Engineering I felt the calling of a new challenge and transitioned into the Technical Design role, building a great team of Technical Designers at Hypixel Studios and working to become the champion of our future creators and modders. As someone who has a background in modding this was my absolute dream role and I’m thrilled to say I was able to work with such amazing people on such an amazing project.
I also enjoy unique programming challenges like messing around with novel file formats and converting data from one format to another. Some of my favourite ones that I’ve worked on have been converting payment exports to a human readable Excel file for tax confirmation, and converting animation data from Blender into a format readable by game animation tools, and even as far back as 12 years ago an overworld map renderer for Minecraft.
Education is another key passion of mine and you can find me giving talks at colleges and universities, or helping out at CoderDojo sessions.
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