Senior Audio Programmer, Generalist

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👋🏽 About Me

• Support (team-)player at heart
• Product-driven, identifying where best I can add value for players, and not just “because the tech is so cool!”
• Audio specialization, but also UE5 tools and engine tech supporting gameplay systems
• My passion lies in helping everyone - Audio designers ofc., but also VFX, gameplay, other engineers, leads,… Trying to find the small things that will have the biggest impact for the product and the team at large.
• Strong knowledge of Wwise and its UE integration, I’m accustomed to maintain, upgrade and customize it. I’m also always happy to be the “Wwise helpdesk” for my teams.

📋 Experience

Epic Games (Audio Gameplay Engineering)

September 2024 - Today

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Advocating for adoption of data-oriented and data-driven design where possible, and sharing as much experience as I can with the team. We are doing great things!!

Unreal Engine 5, Unreal Native Audio

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Phoenix Labs (Dragon Team)

2 yrs, June 2022 - May 2024

<aside> <img src="https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/7a67b36e-d61c-4cd2-b952-ebabed65bb29/0852aabb-06c0-49e9-ba5d-459283cab7dc/Primary_-_Gradient_-_icon.png" alt="https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/7a67b36e-d61c-4cd2-b952-ebabed65bb29/0852aabb-06c0-49e9-ba5d-459283cab7dc/Primary_-_Gradient_-_icon.png" width="40px" /> Senior audio programmer & generalist on the unannounced Everhaven, codename “Dragon”. It got unfortunately (and surprisingly) cancelled, a mere few weeks before release.

It was a third-person multiplayer voxel game, entirely procedurally generated, where players could modify the world however they wished.

Unreal Engine 5, Wwise

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• Highly efficient, real-time, raytraced spatial audio tech, to provide a continuous environment survey around the player automatically, to feed into reverb, occlusion/obstruction, indoor/outdoor detection, as well as volumetric, directional ambiences for predefined voxel bodies, like water, ice, lava, etc. It comprised also tooling and profiling tools.
• Comprehensive Wwise integration in our custom ECS, much more efficient, robust, and tailored to our designers’ needs.