KEVIN GURAN
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Principal Software Engineer
Varian Semiconductor / Applied Materials, Gloucester, MA
Sept 2012 - present
Mentor (part-time)
The Firehose Project, Boston, MA
April 2015 - present
Senior Gameplay Engineer
Irrational Games, Quincy, MA
Mar 2011 - Sept 2012
Game project work
Bioshock Infinite (Xbox 360, PS3)
Software Engineer
Planet Moon Studios / Bigpoint Inc, San Francisco, CA
Nov 2010 - Feb 2011
Game project work
Unannounced Title (Xbox 360, Wii) [cancelled]
Created proof-of-concept demos for hair and cloth simulation using PhysX.
Unannounced Title (Unity) [cancelled]
Software Engineer
LucasArts, San Francisco, CA
Sept 2006 - Sept 2010
Selected projects
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 (PS3, Xbox 360)
Supervised technical development of Challenge Levels.
Extended visual scripting system to support gameplay.
Integrated levels with UI, leaderboard, achievement and persistence systems.
Extended and modified player lightning attack system.
Prototyped player attacks.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3, Xbox 360) [uncredited]
Wrote proxy geometry system to allow two 3rd party physics systems to interact.
Lucidity (XBLA)
Extended asset build system to support new asset types and features.
Developed reusable core tech for XBLA titles.
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (PS3, Xbox 360) [cancelled]
Developed a data-driven character reaction system using a 3rd party dynamic animation engine.
Prototyped physics-based gameplay.
Worked with animators and tools developers to improve animation blend tool.
Worked with technical artists and designers to document and improve the breakable asset creation
pipeline.
Senior Technical Consultant
Agency.com, Chicago, IL
July 2000 - Aug 2006
Selected projects
Hewlett Packard
Miller Beer Corporate
Lead Programmer
Leapnet Communications, Chicago, IL
April 1998 — July 2000
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Languages | C/C++, Lua, C#, Java, Lisp, SQL, Ruby/Rails |
Platforms | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows, Linux/Unix/OS X |
Software | Visual Studio, ProDG, Perforce, Git, Rspec |
EDUCATION
B.S. with Honors in Computer Science
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Private Pilot - ASEL
Oakland Flyers, Oakland International Airport, Oakland, CA
Attended GDC
2003 - 2013
Attended Sony DevCon
2008, 2009
Attended SIGGRAPH
2005
Sun-certified Java Programmer
2002
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