Rendering Engineer
Real-time graphics · Tech art · AR
Engine-level rendering for Fortnite, Rocket League and Pokémon GO. Now building simulations and shaders that feel alive.
Unreal Engine 5.8 · Unity 6.5 URP · GPU simulation · Rendering
A physically simulated slime character that splats when it lands and pulls itself back into a dome: MLS-MPM on the GPU, a ray-marched surface shaded as a lens, bubbles, glow eyes and a coloured shadow. Built twice, in Unreal and Unity, and measured side by side.
SDF molds with density control, blending between five shapes of equal volume.
The Unity port grew bunny ears, a tail and a chomping mouth. Now it roams free and eats carrots.
An Unreal editor plugin that audits every material and times it on the GPU, including Mac. Same shader, twice the cost.
Unity 6 URP · iOS ARKit · Python · LLM agents
A 3D VTuber app for the Mac, an iPhone app that puts your character in your real room with your face driving it, and a little town for my two AI characters, Quill and Boo, whose brain streams their voices in under two seconds.
iPhone AR on the LiDAR room mesh: walk, jump and paint your real living room.
Quill and Boo: a sub-2-second voice pipeline, moods with reasons, memory, games, singing, and a LoRA experiment I stopped.
Neon that never glowed, fog that only existed in the editor, and a stutter that wasn't mine.
Click and drag to poke it. It re-goos itself.
A browser-sized cousin of SlimeLab: a shape-matching soft body (Müller et al. 2005) simulated in JavaScript and ray-marched as metaballs in one fragment shader, with refraction, thickness-based absorption and dynamic resolution. The full GPU version runs in Unreal and Unity →
Fragment shaders on Shadertoy. Click one to run it live on Shadertoy.
A character modeled entirely from signed distance functions and ray-marched.
View on Shadertoy ↗Two characters built from signed distance functions and ray-marched, including a glass dome, floating through a starfield.
View on Shadertoy ↗Gumball and Darwin drawn entirely in a fragment shader, with flat cartoon shading and clean outlines.
View on Shadertoy ↗Most of my professional work is under NDA, so here's what it covered.
2022 – 2026 · Los Angeles
Senior Rendering Engineer
Fortnite · Rocket League · Rocket Racing · UEFN
2020 – 2022 · London
AR Software Engineer (R&D)
Pokémon GO · Pikmin Bloom · Peridot · Ingress
I'm a rendering engineer who likes the whole stack: GPU architecture and frame budgets at one end, and making something that looks and feels good at the other. I've shaped rendering at engine scale at Epic, built AR rendering at Niantic, and spent years before that freelancing on game engines, AR games and interactive murals.
I also mentor. Much of my best work has been tooling that lets technical artists move faster.
Winner, MIT Reality Hack 2023 · Mentor, MIT Reality Hack 2024 · Judge, NASA Space Apps NYC
"I love the place where art, code and graphics meet."
