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Automotive Rendering & Engine Integration (Unity)

Render Pipeline Optimization: Engineered custom HLSL shader pipelines for embedded automotive displays, ensuring high fidelity visuals (Bloom, PBR) within strict millisecond-per-frame budgets. Engine Integration: Led the technical integration of navigation SDKs into Unity, ensuring seamless deployment across diverse platforms (PC, Mobile, WebGPU) and ensuring stability for OEM partners. Technical Support: Served as the primary technical liaison for client engineering teams, debugging complex rendering artifacts and optimizing draw calls for in-car hardware. (Support)

AAA Production Support: Contributed to asset optimization and rendering consistency for major IPs (e.g., Cyberpunk 2077), adhering to rigorous quality standards and proprietary engine workflows.

Cross-Engine Versatility: Delivered custom VFX and shader solutions across both Unreal Engine (4/5) and Unity (URP/ HDRP), ensuring visual parity across platforms. Rapid Prototyping: Utilized C++ / C# and Blueprints to rapidly prototype gameplay mechanics, facilitating quick iteration cycles for design teams.

At Magic Media, I have been responsible for designing and implementing core rendering, animation, and asset optimization systems for projects across multiple platforms, from high-end PC and console titles to mobile-optimized experiences. My work focuses on bridging artistic vision and technical performance, ensuring every feature is both visually compelling and highly optimized.

Architected a modular HLSL shader framework, consolidating shader variants by 40%. This significantly reduced build times and improved rendering throughput while maintaining AAA visual fidelity and meeting strict performance budgets across diverse hardware targets.

Designed and implemented a GPU-driven particle system for mobile, capable of rendering 100,000+ particles at 60 FPS on mid-range devices. This allowed for console-quality VFX in mobile projects without exceeding memory or bandwidth constraints.

Developed a procedural animation system with custom IK solvers, cutting manual animation workload by 30%. This system empowered animators with faster iteration cycles, enabling more creative experimentation while maintaining production efficiency.

Built a scalable asset optimization pipeline and streaming performance, and streamlined live-service update delivery for both QA and production teams.

Specialized in Vertex Animation Textures (VAT) and advanced baking workflows integrating fluid simulations, destruction sequences, and crowd animations into real-time engines. By baking high-complexity animations into optimized textures, I enabled cinematic-quality effects at a fraction of the runtime cost, ensuring both performance stability and visual richness.

Led the integration, assembly, and validation of game assets from external and internal teams, including import/export pipelines, LOD creation, material assignment, physics setup, and performance profiling. Ensured that all assets met visual, optimization, and platform compliance standards before production deployment.

AAA Pipeline Development: Spearheaded technical art workflows for the Tropico franchise, leveraging Unreal Engine 5 to modernize asset pipelines and rendering standards. C++ & Blueprint Architecture: Designed and implemented core gameplay systems using C++ and Blueprints, bridging the gap between game design requirements and engine performance constraints. Shader Engineering: Developed complex master materials and VFX shaders, optimizing instruction counts to maintain target frame rates on console and PC platforms. Performance Profiling: Conducted routine profiling (CPU/GPU) to identify bottlenecks in large-scale simulation scenarios, implementing data structure optimizations to improve scalability.