Open to gameplay & systems roles
Gameplay & Systems Programmer
Games Design and Development graduate (First Class) with 6+ years of professional coding in test automation and CI/CD, now moving into the games industry.
Highlighted project
University projectStereoscopic VR game
Unreal Engine 4 · PC VR (Oculus Rift) · 2018
01Selected work
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Gameplay · 2018
Solo-developed stereoscopic VR game in Unreal Engine 4 for Oculus Rift and motion controllers.
My contribution
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Systems & C++ · 2026
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Gameplay · 2025
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Game jams · 2025
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Tools & CI · 2025
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Final-year university project, taken through the full development lifecycle from concept to delivery.
Placeholder write-up. Describe the concept and core loop, the systems you built, and the technical challenges of stereoscopic rendering, motion controls and VR comfort.
Placeholder: a hard problem you hit, e.g. keeping a steady 90 fps for comfortable VR.
Placeholder: what you changed and the result, e.g. which optimisations you made and how much they gained.
Placeholder write-up. What the system does, the design decisions behind it, and what you learned about memory, performance or architecture along the way.
// Placeholder: paste a short excerpt (15-30 lines) you're proud of,
// and link the full repository with the github field.
int main() {
return 0;
}
Placeholder write-up. The mechanic you were testing, what you learned from playtesting, and how you iterated.
Placeholder write-up. The jam theme, team size and your role, and what you shipped in the time limit.
Placeholder write-up. Draw on your CI/CD and Docker experience: automated builds, smoke tests and how it sped up iteration for the team.
02About
I have a First Class Honours degree in Games Design and Development and more than six years of professional experience writing code as a software developer in test, building automation suites and CI/CD pipelines. I'm passionate about games and systems programming, and I bring a strong foundation in engineering discipline: delivery pipelines, code quality and collaborative development.
I'm now pursuing a move into the games industry as a gameplay or systems programmer, and I'm learning C++ to get there.
Outside work I play a lot of JRPGs, MMOs, rhythm games and retro games. I'm an active Final Fantasy XIV and Destiny 2 player with a real interest in game systems design and player experience. I also run a self-hosted homelab of containerised services in Docker.
03Résumé
June 2022 — July 2026
Lavanda
Sept 2021 — May 2022
Vidsy
Sept 2019 — Sept 2021
Companies House
2016 — 2018
Manchester Metropolitan University
First Class Honours
Final project: a solo-developed stereoscopic VR game in Unreal Engine 4 for Oculus Rift and motion controllers, from concept through delivery.
Modules
04Contact
I'm looking for gameplay or systems programming roles and I'm open to relocating for the right opportunity. The quickest way to reach me is email.
Nam.NL@protonmail.com