Vadim Demkiv

After the mass layoffs at Black Forest Games, ultimately decided to switch industries: • Explored exciting roles in especially meaningful industries that match my interests and expectations. • Familiarized myself more deeply with the principles of clean coding, software architecture and design patterns. • Polished my software engineering skills with regular practice.

Focus: 4C (character, controls, camera, combat). Framework: Unreal Engine 4/5. (C++, Blueprints) Contributed towards: • "Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed" (2022) → focus on 4C, including extensive bugfixing phase. • Unannounced game. → focus on gameplay (traversal, combat, and beyond). • "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin" (TBA). → owner and main contributor of the traversal system code. Traversal is a pillar of the game.

• Started applying for roles in the games industry and developed the required skills in self-directed learning, as I regularly played video games for >25 years and was very excited about Unreal Engine 5.

• Achieved maximum scores with my productive one-pager website in all metrics in Google Lighthouse, GTmetrix, Rank Math and SSL Labs. • Analyzed and optimized website performance and technical content quality. (CSS, JavaScript, PHP, HTML) • Developed custom plugins, themes and blocks for WordPress. (CSS, JavaScript, PHP, HTML)

• Quit my job and prepared for freelancing and my chosen technical focus with >60 courses from LinkedIn Learning, literature and practice.

• Researched, designed, implemented, evaluated and integrated computer vision prototypes with state of the art deep learning. (Python, C++) • Maintained and further developed the Windows desktop application FARO SCENE for 3D point cloud management and processing. (C++, JavaScript) • Managed, migrated, optimized and automated a continuous integration pipeline with TeamCity, used by multiple R&D departments across Europe. (Bash, PowerShell) • Was involved in 2 patents for AI in computer vision.

• Further developed automated quality assurance tools to analyze operational projects of project management. (VBA)

Thesis: „Automatisierte Generierung einer Karte für begehbare Bereiche durch Kamera- und Odometriedaten eines Fahrzeugs“ Schwerpunkt: Computer Vision und Deep Learning.