Simon Jordan

• Working with IOI's AAA C/C++ engine Glacier
• Porting Hitman 3 to Oculus Quest
• Bug fixing
• Creating new gameplay features

• Porting PC titles to Ps4/Ps5/Xbox/Nintendo Switch
• Working with custom engines written in C++, Java and also Unity and Unreal Engine
• Working with UI/UX team, creating new interfaces and UX for titles ported from PC to console
• Evaluating titles for performance optimisations and working with target hardware to deliver stability and good player experience
• Managing the entire studio, delegating to more senior members to manage other skill departments
• Mentoring and development of junior staff
• Creation of technical roadmap and alignment with client QA and creation of build delivery process to external QA
• Interviews and hiring of new developers
• I now have a hands-off role in the studio as it is autonomous

• I was responsible for the technical management of a brand new title for the studio and the development of its prototype
• Interviewing creative and technical roles to join my prototype team
• Creation of technical roadmap to deliver milestones
• Coordinating and working closely with studio directors
• Working with studios propriety AAA C++ engine
• I worked across the entire technology stack: engine, network and gameplay
• Use of profiling and debugging tools on engine and prototype gameplay code
• Working closely with the engine development team discussing improvements to existing process, how to increase quality delivery and reduce bugs

Senior Server Programmer, PIX - Jan 2022 - Feb 2022

• Developing microservices in Python and AWS
• Architecting cloud infrastructure, writing CloudFormation and AWS Sam templates
• CRUD/REST API Design and implementation
• GraphQL API design and implementation in AppSync
• Developed local testing environment using Docker Network
• Working with overseas teams in UK, Europe and USA

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Sharp End - October 2021 - December 2021

• AWS services integration for iOT micro website services from SNS, automated CI/CD build pipelines and deployment of apps to production/staging environments
• Fullstack web development - Javascript, React, Next.js, Go
• GraphQL and CRUD REST API design and implementation
• WebGL and Babylon.js development for 3D model rendering and shading for client application. Vertex and pixel shader development to render model materials
• Helping improve Engineering process for company - reusable package repository, unit testing methodology, standardisations for engineering
• Security Vulnerability analysis against OWASP top ten using Zap and basic pen test methods.

Senior Software Engineer, Interior/Night - June 2021 - October 2021

• Tools and gameplay development in C#
• Profiling, debugging and working on Xbox development kit hardware
• Building web apps to visualise CI/CD data for general team

Senior Software Engineer, Auroch Digital - March 2021 - June 2021

• Profiling and improving serious performance issues with AI opponent on OGRE and porting to GameBoard platform

Senior Developer, Gloomhaven, Flaming Fowl Studios - Feb 2021 - March 2021

• Helping to stabilise multiplayer with Photon Bolt API

Developer, Live by the Sword: Tactics - August 2020 - Feb 2021

• Build system integration with AWS and Unity Cloud Build platform
• C# game development

Developer, 88 Heroes, Bitmap Bureau - July 2020 - October 2020

• Ported game to PlayStation Vita using companies custom in-house engine

Senior Software Engineer, PC Building Simulator, The Irregular Corporation - Jan 2020 - July 2020

• Tools and gameplay programming

Developer, INMOST, Chucklefish - July 2019 - Jan 2020

• Ported the project from Steam to Apple Arcade as a launch title
• Wrote various scripts for build system to deploy game to Apple Arcade
• Working with platform APIs I.e Achievement integration

Senior Software Engineer, Polystream - Feb 2019 - July 2019

• Co-designed with Product Manager to develop a Netflix-style application for game streaming
• Worked across all functions of Polystream to capture requirements and learn technologies
• C# API service design
• Created code to interact with the Polystream platform API to pull down metadata and graphics of games in their library

Developer, The Bradwell Conspiracy, Bossa - March 2018 - Feb 2019

• Improving save/load system which had been developed by a developer no longer on the project
• Bug fixing
• Improving performance and optimising systems

Teaching C++ Game Engine programming, Level Design, Maya and UE4 Programming modules part-time. Marking and moderating exams and course work.

• Managed a team of engineers across UK and France to develop a Mission Planning & Control platform for the F35 aircraft.
• Designed and developed an algorithm chaining tool to convert Matlab code written by physicists into C++ that links input and outputs to display a LAR (launch acceptability region) in the MP&C platform. MISRA code compliances.
• I won a company-wide Robotics competition in the software faculty for writing Computer Vision algorithms in Python for a four wheeled robot to detect and avoid obstacles.
• Maintained physical server stacks in test lab and containerised Docker instances of test environment in Linux CentOS

• Working on high performance C++ Threat Intercept Systems for use by national agencies.
• Low-level programming on custom network processing hardware operating on network packets. Heavy reliance on performance and stability of code.
• Mentoring more junior programmers
• Took lead on the Software Integration & Test software team and won the Innovation Champion award for my technical vision and improvements on the team
• Network packet traffic and bilateral comms data inspection with network tools such as wireshark. Heavy use of TDD and CI.
• Helped manage and maintain complex federation of CI/CD/test/validation infrastructure written in Python, Ruby and Cmake using Kubernetes and Docker