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Game developer and software engineer experienced shipping and supporting commercial titles across Unity and Unreal Engine. Skilled in gameplay systems, AI, server-authoritative networking, and custom tooling that helps cross-disciplinary teams deliver reliable, maintainable features. Collaborates well with art, audio, design, and production, and translates player feedback and design intent into scalable code. Also has experience mentoring and teaching game development fundamentals, with a practical, performance-aware approach to debugging, refactoring, and iteration.…Game developer and software engineer experienced shipping and supporting commercial titles across Unity and Unreal Engine. Skilled in gameplay systems, AI, server-authoritative networking, and custom tooling that helps cross-disciplinary teams deliver reliable, maintainable features. Collaborates well with art, audio, design, and production, and translates player feedback and design intent into scalable code. Also has experience mentoring and teaching game development fundamentals, with a practical, performance-aware approach to debugging, refactoring, and iteration.

Hannah Kirzinger

Game Developer, Software Engineer, Programmer, +1

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Game developer and software engineer experienced shipping and supporting commercial titles across Unity and Unreal Engine. Skilled in gameplay systems, AI, server-authoritative networking, and custom tooling that helps cross-disciplinary teams deliver reliable, maintainable features. Collaborates well with art, audio, design, and production, and translates player feedback and design intent into scalable code. Also has experience mentoring and teaching game development fundamentals, with a practical, performance-aware approach to debugging, refactoring, and iteration.…Game developer and software engineer experienced shipping and supporting commercial titles across Unity and Unreal Engine. Skilled in gameplay systems, AI, server-authoritative networking, and custom tooling that helps cross-disciplinary teams deliver reliable, maintainable features. Collaborates well with art, audio, design, and production, and translates player feedback and design intent into scalable code. Also has experience mentoring and teaching game development fundamentals, with a practical, performance-aware approach to debugging, refactoring, and iteration.

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Game developer and software engineer experienced shipping and supporting commercial titles across Unity and Unreal Engine. Skilled in gameplay systems, AI, server-authoritative networking, and custom tooling that helps cross-disciplinary teams deliver reliable, maintainable features.

Collaborates well with art, audio, design, and production, and translates player feedback and design intent into scalable code. Also has experience mentoring and teaching game development fundamentals, with a practical, performance-aware approach to debugging, refactoring, and iteration.

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Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

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Language

Amharic

Intermediate

Javanese

Intermediate

Work Experience

Game Developer at Glass Star Studio

January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025

Led development and release of Pharaoh’s Purse for a Steam audience; coordinated a team of 3 developers and managed milestones. Integrated 100+ visual and audio assets into custom gameplay systems. Built core gameplay including multiple player and enemy units, save/load, persistent progression and player economy, data-driven ability systems, behavioral AI trees, and semi-procedural map generation. Developed custom Unity editor tools that enabled non-technical content creation for nearly three full gameplay zones. Gathered and analyzed player feedback via monthly playtests, iterating on balance, progression pacing, mechanical clarity, and overall game feel.

Software Engineer at Digital Experiments

January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024

Developed backend and gameplay features for Haven and related outsourced projects, including AI and Unreal Engine work. Implemented server-authoritative multiplayer gameplay with synchronized physics across multiple clients. Extended and improved existing codebases by identifying limitations and delivering technical recommendations. Contributed to the combat system architecture by evaluating and refining foundational object classes. Refactored brittle systems to improve resilience, extensibility, and error handling while enabling expanded use cases; used Git workflows (PRs and code reviews) for large repositories.

Game Development Instructor at GoTech. Oklahoma USA

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022

Taught core computer science and game development concepts to young learners, including control flow, variables, and memory. Designed and delivered lesson plans supported by original example games for student replication. Explained technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and supervised another instructor while supporting curriculum delivery. Coordinated technology needs and equipment requisitions with management.

Research Assistant at University of Central Oklahoma

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018

Participated in ambassador outreach promoting computer science education to teenagers and younger students. Delivered robotics programming instruction to 200+ students and presented at the STLR Conference alongside faculty on a student teaching initiative. Developed classroom-ready lesson plans for foundational computer science concepts.