Ava Pek (exodrifter)
Experienced Software Engineer located in the San Francisco Bay Area with a demonstrated history of working in the software development industry and a Bachelor of Science focused in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. Skilled in Godot, Unity3D, and Haskell. I promise I won't alias all of your mutable buffers.
experience
Indie Game Developer
- Self-published a hard sci-fi point-and-click adventure game called no signal. Most of it was developed live on Twitch, where I answered questions and explained the development process to an audience.
- Self-published an interactive fiction game named Gender Dysphoria which uses a custom scripting language.
- Worked with Iron Circus Games to make voluntary commitment for a crowdfunded game bundle.
Software Developer - Flipstone
- Full-time professional Haskell and Purescript full-stack position.
- Led the design and development of a
next-generation event-sourced shipment
tracking
architecture. - Single-handedly built a unified REPL/demo/test framework for a $1M contract.
- Spearheaded the remediation of several simultaneous production incidents.
VR Developer - Fjord
- Sole developer for creating a high performance
CSG framework for a $1M mobile architecture
visualization contract. - Led the design and development of a real-time, high frequency data visualization application.
- Created a node graph editor and data processing framework to speed up development.
- Responsible for the maintenance of all internal virtual reality libraries.
Unity Intern - Chaotic Moon Studios
- Responsible for continuing development of a fitness mobile application.
- Collaborated with third party contractors to coordinate server/client interaction.
SDE Intern - Microsoft
- Developed a slideshow visual effect in UWP XAML and C++ for the Windows Pictures application.
Unity Intern - Chaotic Moon Studios
- Developed high performance mobile shaders for a driving game using ShaderLab.
Intern Undergrad Senior Analyst - Dell
- Created an extensible program to synchronize data between multiple bug trackers.
Tester - Twisted Pixel Games
- Performed quality assurance testing and regression tests for Ms. Splosion Man.
Intern - ABB
- Used in-house drawing applications to create tabular displays that showed data from the database with color codes that alerted users of abnormal conditions, according to the specifications of engineers and developers of the energy management system.
projects
- A hard sci-fi point and click adventure game about loneliness about a crew space station orbiting a black hole, trying to get home. It's written in Godot and was developed almost entirely while live on Twitch.
- A short, powerful 20 minute non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender. Notably contains the use of a custom narrative scripting language I developed called Rumor.
- A first person, 3D platformer for the PC to race from point A to point B as quickly as possible while avoiding all traps and hazards along the way. The game is built from scratch in a custom game engine made in C++ using open source libraries such as Boost, Bullet, Lua, and OpenGL.
- A narrative experimental exploration game about uncovering the secret of your past. Interact with other passengers on the ship, explore your surroundings, and satisfy the demands of the captain.
education
Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree - UT Austin
- President of the Electronic Game Developers Society
High School Summer Program - Stanford University
- Computer Science (CS 106B) and Statistics (PSYCH 10 / STATS 60)
skills
Languages: Haskell, C#, Java, Purescript, Rust
Engines/Frameworks: Docker, Godot, Unity3D
Tools: Git, FL Studio, Blender