Senior Gameplay Engineer

Companion Group - Remote, Vienna, Austria

Gameplay Programmer

Ubisoft - Stockholm, Sweden

Worked on an unannounced and brand-new game IP which leverages the potential of Ubisoft's in-house cloud-based technology Scalar - led by Ubisoft Stockholm. The majority of work was focused on low level gameplay foundation systems very close to engine code, developed in close collaboration with technical directors and other lead programmers, and to propagate knowledge of these new systems to all development teams to ensure clarity and efficiency.

Gameplay Programmer

Ubisoft - Bucharest, Romania

Part of the core development team for various gameplay systems on Ghost Recon Frontline (11/2019 - 02/2022) within the lead studio for the game. Work was spread around various areas throughout the development on client and server side, such as but not limited to: progression, class, inventory, loot, weapon, vehicle, and news systems, various UIs, matchmaking algorithms, user data tracking, or daily quests/challenges.

Junior Gameplay Programmer

Ubisoft - Bucharest, Romania

An active part of different development teams with a broad range of responsibilities in features and other tasks, accompanied with the commitment to deliver memorable gaming experiences.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint (06/2019 - 11/2019): The workload focused on the release of the fully-internal developed PvP system, as well as the Google Stadia port of the game. The main responsibilities revolved around the Stadia port with novel platform challenges but also included bugs and issues in various PvP gameplay mechanics, data-driven features, user interfaces, client-server features, and other main game issues.

Watch Dogs: Legion (11/2018 - 06/2019): The studio's mandate of the game required to work and dive into every existing world activity gameplay element, to develop and iterate on new sub-features, and fix various bugs. This included the photo camera, mode and booth, football kick-up, Parcel Fox delivery, street art, relic hunt, bare knuckle boxing, riding the London Eye, and Pub activities such as getting drunk and playing darts.

Additionally, voluntarily involved in the Ubisoft Bucharest internal trainers program as a mentor for high school students.

Unity Game Developer

Grape Leaf Studio - Vienna, Austria

Part-time C# programmer responsible for the entire user interface, gameplay improvements and integration of sound effects. Furthermore, involved in production of special effects, co-creation of game concepts, and QC management.

Game production: Space Dash: Earth Defender for iOS and Android.

Junior Consultant

rit-edv consulting GmbH - Vienna, Austria

Core tasks for the in-house production e-Sign in customer service and support, server configurations and software development in Java.

Junior Consultant

IVM Technical Consultants - Vösendorf, Austria

Continous consultant operation as an electrical engineer for static excitation systems at a well-known company.

Consulting core tasks in preparation of wiring plans, error correction in automatic generated standard wiring plans, work preparation for the company's internal manufacturing - as well to keep in touch with the manufacturing team to determine issues and innovations. Also development process innovation, product care, development standardization and implementation of new systems and changes.

Military Service

Austrian Armed Forces - Mistelbach, Austria

Master of Science in Engineering

Game Engineering and Simulation Technology

University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien - Vienna, Austria

Graduated with a US GPA of 3.84 and the master thesis subject of "Using Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning as a Game Mechanic."
The thesis addresses the possibilities and demonstrates the development of a first-person shooter game mechanic which uses a generative machine learning model to produce new weapons. The prototype was realized in Unreal Engine 4.

Short-Term Scholar

Digital Media

Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA, USA

Visit as a short-term scholar to write the master thesis, supervised by Dr. Santiago Ontanon.

Master of Science

Media Informatics

University of Vienna - Vienna, Austria

Completed courses: Render Engines, Gaming Technologies, Advanced Media Technologies, Advanced Software Engineering, and Multimedia Systems.

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Information and Communication Systems and Services

University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien - Vienna, Austria

Graduated with a US GPA of 3.45 and the bachelor thesis subjects of "3D World Generation with Open Government Data" and "A Game Design for a Serious Game about the Smart City Vienna."