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Sam Slater

Verwood,DOR

Summary


LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-slater-2bb5131b3

Experienced professional with 5+ years in Unreal Engine 5 C++ and full-stack development with AWS expertise. Enthusiastic about diverse projects and adept at creative problem-solving with good communication skills.


Have been delivering full scale projects to clients as a lead developer exploring all sides of programming including dev-ops, full-stack and UE5 C++.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work history

Lead Developer (UNREAL)

Metaverse VR
Portsmouth, Hampshire
01.2025 - Current
  • Working closely with MoD clients to deliver high fidelity mixed reality training experiences.
  • Help structure the companies dev processes so we can develop re-usable and maintainable plugin code bases - implementing better CI/CD practices along including build pipelines and proper code review to strengthen the teams overall skills.

Lead Developer

CCW
05.2022 - 01.2025
  • Spearheaded the successful delivery of full-scale applications to valued clients.
  • Demonstrated expertise in end-to-end project management, including AWS deployment, React.js front-end development, Python back-end development, and substantial contributions to Unreal Engine 5 C++.
  • Consistently met and exceeded strict deadlines for project deliverables.
  • Led and collaborated with a highly capable team to achieve collective objectives.
  • Headed Research and Development initiatives, ensuring the organization remained at the forefront of available technologies.

UE4 VR C++ Developer

FourPlus
Remote
04.2021 - 05.2022

UE4 VR C++ Developer. Mainly developing tools and interaction within UE4 in C++ but also developing external tools to aid with data-driven development. External frameworks include Firebase and Avalonia .NET

UE4 VR Developer

Generic Robotics
Remote
09.2020 - 04.2021

UE4 VR Developer. First professional exposure to VR development and started my passion within the VR industry.

Unity Mobile C# Developer

IconicPuzzles
Remote
04.2020 - 02.2021

Lead developer on a unity mobile project. I learned the whole process for developing and distributing apps on IOS and Android.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Oxford Brookes
Oxford
05.2020

A-Levels -

Reigate Grammar School
Reigate, SRY

Skills

Unreal Engine 5 - 9 Years(5 professional years)

  • Advanced C
  • Creating and integrating third-party C plugins, with built binaries using CMake
  • Extending the editor using Slate
  • Connecting projects with Perforce for robust version control
  • Created a product configurator using Pixel streaming with a Reactjs front-end

Rust - Recent

  • Using Rust and Vulkan to create a low level N-Body simulator, to increase understanding of graphics pipelines and how the CPU and GPU interact

Web Development - 5 years

  • Strong with Reactjs and server side rendering using Nextjs
  • Knowledge in creating REST API's
  • Back-end cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Experience using Docker and some experience with K8's and deploying to the cloud

Extra Skills

  • Python - 3 years
  • Java - 2 years
  • Git using GitFlow standards

Timeline

Lead Developer (UNREAL)

Metaverse VR
01.2025 - Current

Lead Developer

CCW
05.2022 - 01.2025

UE4 VR C++ Developer

FourPlus
04.2021 - 05.2022

UE4 VR Developer

Generic Robotics
09.2020 - 04.2021

Unity Mobile C# Developer

IconicPuzzles
04.2020 - 02.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Oxford Brookes

A-Levels -

Reigate Grammar School
Sam Slater