Game programmer and software engineer in San Antonio, Texas
I build gameplay systems and full-stack software. Game code in Unreal and Unity, and outside of games, web front ends, back-end APIs, and the services behind them.
MFA in Game Programming, graduating December 2026. Open to game programming and software engineering roles.
Four solo projects: three game projects and a full-stack web app. Each one has a write-up of how it works and what I measured.
206M
triangles drawn per frame · 14.1 ms GPU · 1440p
main.cpp · C++ · OpenGL · GLSL
A renderer I wrote directly on OpenGL, with no engine underneath. It has Blinn-Phong lighting, a chrome sphere that re-renders the scene into a cubemap every frame so its reflections are live, model loading through Assimp, and an ImGui panel for tweaking lights and materials while it runs.
Blinn-Phong · Fresnel · Dynamic cubemap · Render to texture · Assimp · ImGui
0 B
allocated per frame · 584 guards · 8.7 ms
AIController.cs · C# · Unity
Metal Gear Solid's stealth loop rebuilt in Unity: guards patrol, spot you with a vision cone and a line-of-sight check, then search before going back to their route. It also has CQC, the cardboard box, and wall cover. The detection code allocates no memory per frame, no matter how many guards are active.
NavMesh · Vision cones · Line of sight · No per-frame allocation · Object pooling
30
gameplay classes · UE5 C++
HSCombatComponent.cpp · C++ · Unreal Engine 5
Melee combat in Unreal Engine 5, written in C++ across 30 classes. Combo timing comes from the animations: custom AnimNotifies open and close the combo window, and a press that comes a little early is saved and fires when the window opens. Separate components handle targeting, hit feedback, style ranking, and the combat camera.
AnimNotify · Combo windows · Input buffering · Sword traces · Style ranking
41 ms
p95 response under load · was 49 s
app/cache.py · Python · FastAPI · Redis · JavaScript
A full-stack web app for reviewing your Steam games, where each review keeps a snapshot of the hours you'd played when you wrote it. Python and FastAPI back end, background jobs on a Redis queue for Steam syncs, a plain JavaScript front end, Steam and Clerk sign-in, and 116 tests running in CI.
FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · Redis · Background jobs · Caching · CI
Measured on my PC (RTX 4080 SUPER, Ryzen 7 9800X3D). Each breakdown says how.
Gameplay programming across Unreal, Unity, and my own OpenGL engine.
Bars show how comfortable I am working in each one, not a claim that I know everything about it. Next to each is the work that backs it up, so you can judge for yourself.
C++
UE5 combat system and movement shooter · OpenGL renderer · TA'd it at UIW
C#
Metal Gear stealth AI · top-down/first-person Unity shooter
Python
playgraph: FastAPI service with tests in CI · hand-tracking game with OpenCV and MediaPipe
TypeScript
This site, including the Three.js scene at the top
SQL
Database coursework
Unreal Engine 5
3+ years · combat system (30 C++ classes) · movement shooter with wall-running
Unity
3+ years · Metal Gear stealth AI · URP volumetric fog in the top-down shooter
OpenGL / GLSL
Renderer and shaders written from scratch
Git
Every project on this page is on my GitHub
Perforce
Version control for my team's UE5 thesis project
Profiling
Unity Profiler · Unreal stat commands · OpenGL timer queries
Sep 2025 – Jul 2026
University of the Incarnate Word · Teaching
2024 – 2026now
UIW · MFA Graduate Prototyping Program · Development
2022 – 2025
University of the Incarnate Word · Outreach
Other things I've built, outside the projects above.
I'm a game programmer and software engineer finishing my MFA in Game Programming at the University of the Incarnate Word, where I also TA'd two semesters covering Unity, Unreal Engine 5, and data structures.
Most of what I build is gameplay code in Unreal and Unity, plus the occasional engine when I want to know how something works underneath. Outside of games I build full-stack web apps, like PlayGraph above, and back-end APIs in Python and C++.
An accelerated program at UIW: I'm earning the B.F.A. and M.F.A. at the same time.
2024 – 2026
University of the Incarnate Word · San Antonio, Texas
Triple A Programmer Award · 2024
Relevant coursework: Advanced C++ Programming, C# Programming, Unity, Unreal Engine 5, Systems Architecture, Gameplay Programming, AI Systems, Performance Optimization
2021 – 2026
University of the Incarnate Word · San Antonio, Texas
Minor: Computer Interactive Systems (CIS)
Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Graphics, Game Engine Architecture, Web Development, Database Systems
I finish my MFA in December 2026 and I'm looking for game programming or software engineering roles. Email is the fastest way to reach me.