I am a passionate and versatile developer with a keen interest in various software disciplines. My primary enthusiasm lies in low-level graphics programming, and I enjoy creating games in my spare time. Outside of software, my biggest passions lie with creating music and mastering classic fighting games.
My primary responsibility was QA Automation, with a particular focus on Cypress. This was used to improve the Autodesk Construction Cloud(ACC) software, linked above. The goal was to keep visibility on the quality of ACC as the rate of development increased, ensuring that all code changes were robustly tested for regressions.
I also contributed to CI/CD of the ACC app, by getting my test suite integrated in the build pipeline, with the goal of creating a quality gate for all code in the project moving forward. In order to get the point of integration, I had to lead meetings and coach senior engineers to improve thinking around software quality and garner confidence and buy-in from them of the benefits such a significant CI change would bring.
I was given increased responsibilities on multiple occasions, acting as the manager for our team when my own manager was away, even to the extent of assigning tasks to, and reviewing subsequent PRs with, experienced senior engineers.
I am currently working part-time at the university as a student mentor and ambassador. As ambassador I help run open days for the Uni, specifically helping my course leader setup for their talks and workshop, as well as providing continuous support throughout the duration of the workshop.
As a mentor, I run both one-to-one mentoring sessions, with first and second year students in the Computing department, as well as running a weekly coding workshop for the entire department every other Monday. I also helped run a weekly coffee morning, engaging in conversations with many Computing students about finding placements, improving CVs and portfolios, and other study-related topics that they wished to discuss.
Key modules that I have achieved high grades in:
- 3D Games Development
- Effective C++ Programming
- Advanced Games Console Techniques
- Advanced Games Console Projects
- Research in Games
- Software-Hardware Optimisation Techniques
- Fundamentals of Computer Architecture
- Mathematics for Graphics
- Mathematics for Modelling and Rendering
I also completed a Placement Year, which was my paid internship at Autodesk.
Computer Science - A
Maths - C
Philosophy - C Computer Science - 9
Religous Education - 9
English Literature - 8
English Language - 7
Maths - 7
French - 7
Physics - 7
Chemistry - 6
Biology - 6
History - 6
I am a software developer with a passion for game development and graphics. I am currently in my Masters year of university at Sheffield Hallam, studying Computer Science for Games, which marries my passions for both technology and art. Through this course, I have developed a game engine in DirectX, as well as a game engine for the PS5, which sported a fully-fledged data-driven level editor.
Outside of software, I have many hobbies and interests. I play guitar and make music, with a small album (EP really) in the works. I am also deeply passionate about games, particularly fighting games. I play Street Fighter 5 and 6 at a competitive level, as well as many other games at high-level. On the single-player side, I have always had a softspot for Capcom games, such as Devil May Cry, and have recently been focused on 100% completing all games in the FromSoftware library (with Bloodborne, Demon’s Souls, and Dark Souls III complete so far)
My last professional role was a software engineering intership at Autodesk in Sheffield, UK. I honed my development skills across the whole tech stack and gained siginificant professional experience by working with multiple development teams across the world, even temporarily acting in a managerial role. The experience awakened a deeper drive to solve problems and improve the ways we work in all areas of computer science. It also greatly enhanced my troubleshooting and debugging skills, enabling me to tackle all problems with more efficiency and tenacity.
My last personal project was actually building this very site, using a new framework called Hugo that I had found out about, as it enabled me to have more control over the design of the site as I could directly write the HTML and CSS compared to templated website makers such as Wix.
My current personal project is to create a multi-platform game engine, connecting my existing DirectX rendering engine with a Vulkan engine that I am also working on, via an abstraction layer so that either graphic API can be used interchangably. On top of this I aim to build a robust editor, similar to the one I made for PS5, with the long-term goal of making the project free for others to use and create games of their own with!.
Here are a few games and graphics related languages and technologies that I am proficient with and have been working with recently: