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My professional resume

Josie Thompson

C++ Gameplay Engineer

Seattle, WA

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Education Experience

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Washington (2022)

Seattle, Washington

Work Experience

Unreal Gameplay Engineer

Timberline Studio Inc.

April 2022 - November 2023

• Contributed to design and implementation of tech systems in both C++ and Blueprint for various mechanics of an rpg video game, such as item drops and quests
• Rapidly prototyped and iterated on important UI features such as menus, notifications and item information
• Exercised skills in clear communication of goals, problems and research into potential solutions

Teaching Assistant

Software Design and Implementation

Paul Allen School of Computer Science

March 2021 - December 2021

• Used console applications to publish course assignments within a tight schedule
• Managed organization for grading assignments for a class of nearly three hundred students
• Resolved dozens of special case problems with student homework submissions per week

Research Assistant

Robot Learning Lab

Paul Allen School of Computer Science

March 2021 - June 2021

• Read through many recent peer-reviewed papers in order to have a good grasp of the problem at hand
• Implemented complex algorithms in order to further push knowledge of the concepts in these research papers
• Used advanced machine learning libraries in python to conduct experiments on the concepts we studied
• Wrote extensive documentation and established organized project structure in order to maintain a practical environment

Programming Experience

Skilled in technologies

C++, Unreal and Blueprint, Python, Java/C#, typescript

Ion

https://github.com/josiest/ion

https://github.com/josiest/ion/tree/main/examples

A small-scoped library for rapidly prototyping games in SDL and EnTT using C++

• Implemented basic game engine architecture for event-driven programming
• Developed two example arcade games that use the ion library, as well as an the EnTT ECS library
• Currently working on making the library data-oriented with a tool for data serialization using EnTT's reflection library

Hax and mapgen

https://github.com/josiest/hax

https://github.com/josiest/mapgen

Small libraries for working with hex maps

• Implemented algorithms for working with unique mathematical norms in C++
• Used unit-test design to write well-covered tests
• Wrote clear and easy-to-read documentation complete with visual examples and tutorials