game systems & tools programmer

Sydrenz
Anthony
Cao

I build the infrastructure that lets games ship — editor tooling, gameplay systems, and the pipelines designers actually want to use.

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based in

Laguna → Sunderland ✦

about

Final-year Game Development student at De La Salle University - Laguna Campus, specialising in the systems and tooling layer that sits between the engine and the designer.

My focus is on Unity editor tooling, gameplay systems architecture, and runtime performance for mobile platforms. I care about the kind of work that makes other people's jobs easier — a level editor that a designer can pick up without a tutorial, an asset pipeline that loads what it needs and nothing more.

Currently finishing a vertical slice with a custom Unity level editor, Addressables integration, and a codebase structured with Assembly Definitions. Looking for a junior tools/systems role in the UK after gaining local industry experience.

skills

core

C# Unity Editor Scripting C++ HLSL

unity systems

Addressables Assembly Definitions ScriptableObjects Object Pooling EditorWindow

mobile & platforms

Mobile-first Android iOS WebGL Free-to-play

tools & pipeline

Git & GitHub Visual Studio DirectX 11 SFML Godot

projects

featured — vertical slice

Curation Curiosity

A 3D educational puzzle game where players restore animal totems by identifying biological traits. Built for mobile with touchscreen-first interaction — swipe to rotate, tap to select, drag to answer.

Unity C# Addressables Custom Level Editor Assembly Definitions Mobile WebGL

              Tools work: Built a custom Unity EditorWindow level editor — the design lead made levels without touching a line of code. Addressables pipeline groups level assets and 3D models separately, loading only what's needed per scene.
            

↗ play on itch.io

archived

Beyond the Thicket

4-month collaborative project. Designed and implemented the core turn-based combat system — stat architecture, action resolution, and encounter flow.

Unity C# Combat Systems Collaborative

↗ itch.io

archived — coursework

DirectX 11 Rendering Engine

Personal implementation of a rendering pipeline from scratch for GDENG03. Core pipeline, fog system, and shader architecture. Group variant includes collaborative contributions.

C++ DirectX 11 HLSL Rendering

↗ GitHub

archived — coursework

SFML Kong

Donkey Kong-inspired platformer in C++ and SFML. Buggy, but deliberately retained as a record of early-stage learning — the progression to Assembly-Definition-structured codebases is the point.

C++ SFML Collaborative

↗ GitHub