GAMEPLAY TECHNICAL LEAD – Hinterland Games (2025 – Present) 

Promoted from Programmer (Gameplay) (2019 – 2025)

BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2

• Technical lead for gameplay programming, defining architecture and technical standards in close collaboration with the programming team, coordinating prototyping efforts, and enabling faster iteration across gameplay, design, animation, and UI.
• Primary engineering point-of-contact for gameplay, instigating and leading meetings and aligning engineering priorities across design, animation, and UI in a production-light team environment.
• Mentoring and supporting other programmers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and hands-on problem solving, fostering collective technical decision-making while preserving individual ownership of system scope.
• Established multiplayer-safe gameplay coding patterns and validation workflows to ensure features scale correctly in both single-player and co-op.
• Built a multiplayer “co-op coordinator” system to synchronize Gameplay Abilities across multiple players during shared interactions, ensuring deterministic behaviour and correct replication while eliminating complex branching gameplay logic.

The Long Dark – Episode 4, survival updates & Nintendo Switch port

• Coded new gameplay mechanics including the mine elevator, noisemakers and autorun systems.
• Delivered animation refinements and systemic fixes for the Episode 4 of the story mode.
• Platform-specific integration for Nintendo Switch, including SDK hookup and new gyro controls.

SENIOR GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMER – Rocksteady Studios (2018 – 2019)

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

• Designed and implemented core systemic gameplay including team “faction” systems and a large-scale enemy spawning framework.
• Contributed to mission system architecture improvements; rapid prototyping and creation of core activities.

PROGRAMMER – Hello Games (2017 – 2018)

No Man’s Sky: NEXT

• Designed and implemented a replication-based networking system to enable the transition from single-player to large-scale multiplayer.
• Owned animation and camera systems (IK pipelines, gameplay cameras) while independently planning and delivering features to support team velocity and quality.

GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMER – Dambuster Studios (2015 – 2017)

Unreleased Title

• Contributed to the migration from CryEngine to Unreal Engine, helping establish new coding standards and workflows.
• Took ownership of multiple differentiating gameplay systems.

Homefront: The Revolution

• Owned co-op gameplay systems including revival mechanics, lifecycle flow, and cross-mode enablement between single-player and multiplayer.
• Sole engineer responsible for multiplayer synchronization on non-deterministic, root-motion AI agents across a P2P session. This involved animation changes, local pathing of out-of-sync agents back to their desired location, and other changes for smoother player-facing results.

INDIE DEVELOPMENT (2014 – 2015)

Lootineers – Full playable demo completed. Title Unreleased

• Co-developed an independent game project, sharing responsibility for programming, design and art.
• Delivered a fully playable prototype demo showcased in our trailer here.

GAMEPLAY / ONLINE ENGINEER – Playground Games (2013 – 2014)

Forza Horizon 2

• Implemented online features including Live Map system (direct Xbox API integration), livery synchronization.
• Created a variety of missions such as the Horizon Promo photo mode and several important UI screens.

INDIE DEVELOPMENT (2012 – 2013)

Skyfarer [Working Title] – Unreleased

• Co-developed a 3D top-down airship trading and combat game in C++ and DirectX in a custom engine; initial prototype built in Unity.
• Implemented a mixin architecture in Lua to accelerate gameplay iteration.

ONLINE ENGINEER – Playground Games (2011 – 2012)

Forza Horizon & Forza Horizon Rally Expansion

• Built online lobbies, mission systems, multiplayer game flow frameworks.
• Spearheaded multi-stage rally gameplay architecture and managed online division for DLC releases.

Let’s build something great.