Dominique Russell

- Used C# and C++ to engineer robust logic and developer tools that helped to optimise workflows and support multidisciplinary content creation.

- Authored technical and user-facing documentation to streamline workflows.

- Designed and maintained a bespoke testing tool that significantly accelerated QA pipelines and reduced development bottlenecks.

- Collaborated with AI, tools and gameplay departments to integrate systems within my team’s frameworks.

- Maintained the team’s ADO dashboard, regularly triaging bugs, updating queries and chasing up tickets.

- Developed hardware-specific features using platform APIs.

- Refactored graphics code and HLSL shaders to support desktop graphics on PS5 hardware.

- Debugged low-level issues to ensure platform compliance.

- Iterated development of UI systems such as context specific menus, dynamic tooltips and real-time elements.

- Independently refactored the codebase, resolving compiler, linker and rendering issues to support cross-platform development.

- Debugged low-level memory, compiler, and linker issues for porting from PC to MacOS and Linux platforms.

- Overhauled legacy UI to align with the remastered design specifications.

- Owned the AI engineering pipeline solo for 5 months leading up to release.

- Executed the SDLC end-to-end over 4 months.

- Authored a comprehensive TDD along with other important documents such as feasibility analysis and risk assessments.

- Engineered an adaptive, real-time AI system that adjusted based on user behaviour.

- Executed a rigorous testing process.

- Released the final product on Steam.

- Designed and implemented a bespoke rendering demo from the ground up.

- Led a 5 person sub-team within a multidisciplinary unit of 25, managing weekly task allocation, resource planning and QA.

- Co-developed dynamic UI architectures such as inventories and a localised dialogue system.

- Conducted routine code reviews.

- Compared different algorithmic approaches to designing a behaviour tree system.

- Led a small team in a collaborative group project, handling team alignment, task assignment and delivery timelines.

- Established and managed development workflows with project tracking software.

- Owned the version control strategy for the project.

- Designed and engineered a product prototype.

- Developed a bespoke arithmetic package to overcome numerical storage limitations.

- Made use of rapid prototyping to test, refine and polish a level design prototype to align with a design specification.

- Served as the sole programmer for a 3 person development team

- Acted as project manager organising agile development workflows and simple sprint tracking

- Collaborated in a 2 person engineering team to design, build and deploy a prototype within a single day.

- Focused on the delivery of an MVP.

- Developed a proof of concept application within 2 days in a 2 person engineering team.

- Utilised Unity engine's 2D physics architectures.

- Owned the asset pipeline and UI development.

- Won first place in a game jam for a co-op game made in an afternoon by a 2 person team where I was the solo engineer.

- Collaborated in a 5 person team to build a functional prototype within 2 days.

- Supported unique input hardware.

- Owned the animation development pipeline.

- A solo development project resulting in my first product made using the Unity engine.