Contribution

As part of a co-dev engineering team, I have helped ship multiple seasons of Microsoft Rare‘s live-service flagship title Sea of Thieves.
I worked on an enormous range of gameplay systems & editor tools, executing time-sensitive server hotfixes, profiling and optimisation, improving automated workflows and closely collaborating with different disciplines (QA, Design, UI, Backend, Marketing, etc), supporting several major content updates for one of Xbox Studios’ most successful new-IP titles of the last generation.

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Contribution

I was part of a small outsourced engineering team maintaining feature quality as production for WARDOGS ramped up.
We fixed 100+ issues across the codebase, improving client and server stability, gameplay behaviour, and player experience.

I also developed engine tools to improve asset and data pipelines with additional explicit verification and validation.

I defined and rolled out an OBS capture template for high-quality gameplay footage, documenting the workflow and presenting it to the team, setting the internal standard to improve playtesting, bug reproduction, and issue reporting.

Our team regularly participated in closed playtests to identify issues that had escaped normal QA testing, providing detailed feedback supported by high-quality gameplay footage.

Contribution

I was one of four engineers on the initial team responsible for bringing Le Mans Ultimate and its proprietary engine rFactor2 to consoles. We played a major role in establishing the technical foundations for this project, with a particular focus on replacing the existing UI integration framework, Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), with Coherent Gameface.

This required deep work across C++ engine systems and platform-specific constraints. We implemented the full Coherent Gameface rendering pipeline, wiring input, events, and resource loading; resolving threading and lifetime issues between engine and UI layers; and ensuring consistent behaviour across PC and console builds. We also re-architected multiple UI flows in HTML/SCSS/TypeScript to work within Gameface’s stricter layout and rendering model, while profiling and optimising performance, memory usage, and startup times.

Following the delivery of several key milestones to a high production standard, the project rapidly expanded from the original four-engineer team to a multidisciplinary team of more than 20 developers. I helped onboard new engineers by documenting established systems and workflows, sharing implementation knowledge, reviewing work, and supporting developers as they became familiar with the new codebase and adjacent technologies.