My Portfolio

Work Experience
Education

Aug 2021 to Present
Creative Assembly

Associate UI Programmer
- HUD team: Implemented and maintained a number of UI features in Hyenas, an Unreal C++ SaaS multiplayer shooter utilizing client-server, event-based architecture and object replication.
- Improved performance and code quality by incrementally refactoring Ping System that highlights objects in the 3D world for other players. Used RAD Telemetry to validate the performance boost.
- Developed flow charts and naming system in Confluence for the post-death flow that utilizes ubiquitous language to simplify the designer-engineer communication as outlined by the DDD principles.
- Designed, implemented, tested and documented TOptionalPtr, a wrapper for more robust code safety checks.
- Actively proposed improvements to team coding standards through code reviews to increase adherence to SOLID principles, C++ core guidelines and naming consistency.
- Led initiative for UI unit tests in Unreal test framework by developing a command line program to reduce the build times, and hence the TDD cycle duration.
- Presented actionable enhancements to retrospectives and Jira ticketing to improve adherence to Agile methodologies.
Sep 2019 to Nov 2020
Ocado Technology

Software Engineer
- PSPWeb team: Responsible for a back-end microservice communicating with other payment services and a front-end pop-up handling the credit card 3DS checks during the card payments.
- Maintained and refactored Spring Boot REST API endpoints and their implementation as a result of the planning-phase collaboration with teams responsible for the interfacing microservices
- During migration to Square PSP, developed a successfully adapted PSP-facing PoC class for payment authorisation calls.
- Expanded and rewritten unit and system tests in Mockito-utilizing JUnit and Selenium frameworks in order to comply with the team test coverage standards.
- Developed performance tests in Gatling and led initiative to incorporate integration tests into the deployment pipeline by implementing a PoC in the planning phase.
- Established SLOs of our back-end service by conducting a series of performance tests and calculating the results through self-made Python script.
- Monitored the responsible systems regularly, identified and solved production alerts in time-sensitive situations by using PagerDuty and Kibana.
Jun 2017 to Aug 2017
Open Cosmos

C# Intern
- Implemented a C# parser for code metadata extraction

Mar 2021 to Aug 2022
Programming Books
- Domain-Driven Design - Eric Evans
- A Philosophy of Software Design - Alex Milkov
- Effective Modern C++ - Scott Meyers
- Game Programming Patterns - Robert Nystrom
- Clean Code - Robert C. Martin
Jan 2021 to Feb 2021
Blender Udemy Course
- Implemented 2 fully animated projects
- Certificate
Jun 2020 to Jan 2021
C++ Udemy Course/ C++ Crash Course book
- Obtained and practiced concepts of the language and the STD library
- Certificate
Sep 2015 to Jun 2019
University of St Andrews

Computer Science BSc, First
- Developed 3 distinct video-games on my own engine (Java)
- Finished 2 mathematical modules that focused on matrices, vectors and linear algebra and a Computer Graphics module that dealt with 3D mathematics specifically
- Developed a ResNet solution for object detection of seals on aerial images (Python)
- Data Analysis Team Project (Python): produced a data analysis tool that used 5 machine-learning algorithms to predict results of the school cancer research while working in a team