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Hi, I’m Sergii Ievtushenko, a Lead Game Developer with a long track record across programming, design, and production. I’ve shipped games from concept to release and post-launch updates, working in teams of all sizes—from AAA studios to solo indie projects. I’m a lifelong game developer who loves learning and solving hard problems. My strengths include Unreal Engine 4/5, C++, Blueprints, the Gameplay Ability System, Niagara, and a passion for building robust systems, balancing, and player progression. I’m a natural mentor and leader, able to bridge the gap between engineers and designers and to justify design decisions while staying pragmatic and focused on delivering great experiences.…Hi, I’m Sergii Ievtushenko, a Lead Game Developer with a long track record across programming, design, and production. I’ve shipped games from concept to release and post-launch updates, working in teams of all sizes—from AAA studios to solo indie projects. I’m a lifelong game developer who loves learning and solving hard problems. My strengths include Unreal Engine 4/5, C++, Blueprints, the Gameplay Ability System, Niagara, and a passion for building robust systems, balancing, and player progression. I’m a natural mentor and leader, able to bridge the gap between engineers and designers and to justify design decisions while staying pragmatic and focused on delivering great experiences.

Sergii Ievtushenko

Game Developer, Game Designer, Programmer, +2

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Hi, I’m Sergii Ievtushenko, a Lead Game Developer with a long track record across programming, design, and production. I’ve shipped games from concept to release and post-launch updates, working in teams of all sizes—from AAA studios to solo indie projects. I’m a lifelong game developer who loves learning and solving hard problems. My strengths include Unreal Engine 4/5, C++, Blueprints, the Gameplay Ability System, Niagara, and a passion for building robust systems, balancing, and player progression. I’m a natural mentor and leader, able to bridge the gap between engineers and designers and to justify design decisions while staying pragmatic and focused on delivering great experiences.…Hi, I’m Sergii Ievtushenko, a Lead Game Developer with a long track record across programming, design, and production. I’ve shipped games from concept to release and post-launch updates, working in teams of all sizes—from AAA studios to solo indie projects. I’m a lifelong game developer who loves learning and solving hard problems. My strengths include Unreal Engine 4/5, C++, Blueprints, the Gameplay Ability System, Niagara, and a passion for building robust systems, balancing, and player progression. I’m a natural mentor and leader, able to bridge the gap between engineers and designers and to justify design decisions while staying pragmatic and focused on delivering great experiences.

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Hi, I’m Sergii Ievtushenko, a Lead Game Developer with a long track record across programming, design, and production. I’ve shipped games from concept to release and post-launch updates, working in teams of all sizes—from AAA studios to solo indie projects. I’m a lifelong game developer who loves learning and solving hard problems.

My strengths include Unreal Engine 4/5, C++, Blueprints, the Gameplay Ability System, Niagara, and a passion for building robust systems, balancing, and player progression. I’m a natural mentor and leader, able to bridge the gap between engineers and designers and to justify design decisions while staying pragmatic and focused on delivering great experiences.

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Work Experience

Senior Gameplay Engineer

September 1, 2025 - April 1, 2026

Implemented Unreal's State Tree-based AI bots, GAS-based abilities and items, User Widgets for UI, Animation Graph for contextual character animations, and a custom bot target selection system.

Solo indie dev on Deckbuilding Inventory Management Auto Battler at Independent / Self-employed

March 1, 2025 - Present

Developing Unreal 5 project in C++/Blueprints. Built UI visuals with User Widgets, applied MVVM using the ViewModel Plugin to separate visuals from game logic, and implemented a wide, flat architecture with test-driven development for fast iteration.

Independent game developer/designer of Forestry gian, Roguelike Deckbuilder

June 1, 2023 - March 1, 2025

Designed, implemented and published the game in Unreal 5 as a solo developer. Built Niagara particles, materials, 2D animations, and developed content: cards, heroes, keywords, abilities and enemies.

Principal Technical Game Designer on Star Wars: Hunters at Zynga

September 1, 2019 - June 1, 2023

Owned design for many characters (abilities, stats, balance), designed many systems (AI bots, matchmaking, respawn sync), implemented melee and ranged abilities for characters using Blueprint, tuned AI bots, and worked with Unreal 5, Blueprints, C++, and GAS.

Game Director at Freejam

November 1, 2018 - July 1, 2019

Reorganized Card Life's progression into a coherent experience, repurposed content to fill gaps, and led the team to prepare the game for full release.

Lead Game Designer at Stainless Games

April 1, 2018 - October 1, 2018

Worked on systems design, balance, and proposals for other games and ports.

Lead Game Designer at Freejam

May 1, 2015 - March 1, 2018

Handled Content, Systems, and Economy design of the whole game; reworked and improved balance; designed new game modes and matchmaking, new content and progression, new damage system, tuned physics, and more.

Senior Game Designer at Wargaming.net

July 1, 2012 - May 1, 2015

Made many gameplay prototypes for gameplay and controls; designed parts of the damage model, matchmaker system, AI bots' aggro system, achievements system, random boxes system, daily quests system, and more.

Game Programmer / Game Designer at Crytek

April 1, 2008 - July 1, 2012

Implemented class system, game economy calculations, matchmaker system, achievements system, telemetry system, and more for Warface.

Game Programmer at Deep Shadows

July 1, 2006 - April 1, 2008

Implemented various gameplay features and level design tools in the Precursors & White Gold engine.

Game Programmer at OSW Games Studio

January 1, 2006 - July 1, 2006

Implemented various gameplay and engine features in the licensed engine on AntiUFO.

Game Programmer at Boston Animation

November 1, 2003 - January 1, 2006

Implemented gameplay features and systems like Play by Email for Scrabble Online.