Hi, I'm Ryan

I am a developer
I am a technical designer
I love working on games
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Ryan Heath

Software Engineer, Technical Game Designer

I am a senior computer science and game design student at DigiPen. I have experience collaborating with designers, artists, and sound designers across many game projects. I have taught classes in C, C#, Lua, and Python in topics ranging from introductory programming to game engine architecture. I have practice hosting and administering devops tools including Gitea, Drone, and Phabricator with up to 30 users.

Leadership

Teamwork

Communication

Research

Design

Problem Solving

Experiences

Engineer Intern

AuthorDigital

May 2020 - Aug 2020, Remote

Female CEO led video game company of industry veterans connecting people through story.

Responsibilities:

Wrote a Unity serialization library that outputs to JSON or CSV and documented it in Confluence which allowed other teams to implement it in their projects
Created a data driven inventory system with a simple to use interface by extending Unity’s Addressable Asset System, enabling other engineers and designers to easily modify gameplay data
Integrated the Unity Unit Test Framework into the project and set up a test runner in Jenkins, which sent notifications to the team on test failures
Worked with Jira utilizing Agile Scrum methodologies

Teaching Assistant & Tutor

DigiPen Institute of Technology

Sep 2019 - Apr 2021, Redmond, Washington

Since 1988, DigiPen Institute of Technology has been preparing students to succeed as skilled engineers, artists, and designers in the growing technology industries.

Responsibilities:

Assisted students with their calculus, linear algebra, and C/C++ coursework
Primary TA for 36 sophomore game teams in CMake and Lua

Computer Science Instructor

DigiPen Academy

Jun 2019 - May 2020, Redmond, Washington

DigiPen Academy is the K-12 sibling of DigiPen Institute of Technology, which has been turning talented college-age students into exceptional engineers, artists, designers and video game creators for more than three decades.

Responsibilities:

Taught high school students game development, C#, Unity, C, Lua, and PICO-8
Wrote the curriculum for a game engine architecture course in PICO-8 and Lua

Skills

C#

2 years of making games in Unity. Taught classes in both Unity development and .NET C# programming. When a friend or classmate needs help with Unity programming, they come to me.

C++

5 years of classes and 4 game engines made in C/C++. I’m comfortable working with everything from shiny new language features down to walking through the generated assembly.

Lua

2 years of making games and personal projects. After integrating Lua into my sophomore game engine I was hired to be the game class Lua TA. My favorite language to teach!

CMake

Self taught to facilitate making my game engines and homework projects cross platform. I’ve had teachers refer other students to me for help when they need help with CMake

Unity

2 years of making games for classes and fun, one internship working professionally as a Unity developer. Familiar with most parts of the Unity pipeline from working on small teams.

Godot

Godot is my go to engine for 2D games or any UI heavy project. Used for almost all of my design classes assignments because I could get to a testable prototype faster and start iterating.

Linux

I’ve been using Linux since the mid 2000’s and that personal hobby has paid off in being able to self host tools for my game teams and easily jump in to any cross platform development task.

Agile

After my experience using Agile Scrum at AuthorDigital I was sold on it’s usefulness. I took what I learned and led my Junior game team with a scrumban style which helped our development immeasurably.

Git

I’ve been using git for personal projects for almost 10 years now. I have used git for the last 3 years on evey school project I’ve worked on, including teaching other members of a team when needed.