Samuel Catley
Benenden,UK
Summary
Emerging self-starter professional developer, with knowledge in gaming, web, front end and back end technologies. Works great in a team or solo, takes pride in work, works collaboratively to meet project milestones. Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Software Developer
Playtech PLC
London
2022.07 - Current
- Spearheaded transition from JavaScript to Unity3D Game Engine
- Built API for existing tech stack to work with Unity
- Developed and delivered 2 games to clients
- Maintained internal libraries
- Built games using CI/CD Jenkins and configured build jobs.
Software Developer
Social-Ability Ltd
Tonbridge
2020.07 - 2022.07
- Designed and developed 10+ unique games and countless re-skins for Magic Table
- Created IR remote for projector using Arduino Nano
- Planned and assembled new version of Magic Table hardware
- Head of Service, fixing bugs and training users
- Improved game quality and developer time by converting games from CreateJS to Unity.
IT Engineer
Fluent Technologies
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
2019.07 - 2020.07
- Managed customer server and network infrastructure
- Installed desktops / laptops / printers / servers to customer sites
- Managed helpdesk
IT Support
Bethany School
Goudhurst, Kent
2014.07 - 2019.07
- Supported all staff with all technical challenges, including laptops / desktops / Windows / MacOS
- Installed and configured printers
- Managed server and network infrastructure
- Managed helpdesk
Education
GCSEs - IT
Cornwallis Academy
Maidstone 2005.09 - 2010.07
Skills
- Game development
- Back end software development
- HTML / CSS
- JavaScript / TypeScript / Node
- React / Vue
- C / C# / NET / Python
- Unreal / Unity Engine
- Jenkins / CI/CD / Git / Azure / REST API
- Agile / Debugging
- Docker / Linux
- Raspberry Pi / Arduino
Major Projects
- Fire 4 Cash Collect, Slot Machine game with four slots, free spins and bonus mode, managed from conception to production.
- Unity Slots Engine, Built API for Unity to communicate with JS through PlayMode using WebSockets, and using JS / Unity API for Production, also built Slot Machine engine in C#.
- Unity / JS API Coordinates, Built Unity Game which communicates with JS getting coords from a camera which the game reacts to.
- Ask Sam, Full Stack web app with two frontends (React: one public, one private, behind authentication of Supabase), backend (C#, ASP.NET) connecting with a database (SQL) to store questions and answers.
- C# Web Scraper, Purpose built program to scrape jobs or job websites, displays the results in terminal in a presentational manner, saves the scrapped data in a JSON so it can be rerun on that day without the need to scrape again, and saves the data into an excel spreadsheet so the data can be displayed on pi charts.
Affiliations
- Karate
- Making games
- Learning AI / ML
References
References available upon request.
Quote
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux
Timeline
Software Developer
Playtech PLC
2022.07 - Current
Software Developer
Social-Ability Ltd
2020.07 - 2022.07
IT Engineer
Fluent Technologies
2019.07 - 2020.07
IT Support
Bethany School
2014.07 - 2019.07
GCSEs - IT
Cornwallis Academy
2005.09 - 2010.07