Artem Shvadskiy
Verified Expert in Engineering
VR Game Developer
Seattle, WA, United States
Toptal member since September 16, 2022
Artem has 9+ years of industry experience, working at large companies, such as Amazon, and smaller startups, like Cyanogen. He has engineered products using a comprehensive mobile, back-end web, and game development skillset. Artem has recently worked as a VR game engineer on Horizon Worlds at Meta and specializes in Unity.
Portfolio
Experience
- Java - 8 years
- Games - 5 years
- Android - 5 years
- Hack - 4 years
- GraphQL - 4 years
- C# - 4 years
- Unity - 4 years
- Virtual Reality (VR) - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Unity, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), JetBrains Rider, Unity3D
The most amazing...
...product I've developed is an Android app companion for Pokemon Go that mapped the location of nearby Pokemons.
Work Experience
VR Game Developer
Meta
- Profiled Horizon Worlds for performance bottlenecks and implemented optimized mesh rendering techniques.
- Implemented the asset spawning architecture to instantiate and synchronize networked game objects at runtime.
- Oversaw the back-end system design for managing leaderboards, collaboration tools, and persistent variable systems.
Software Engineer
- Developed a video ranking pipeline for Facebook Gaming that ingested live video data to sort and filter videos by language, view count, and game.
- Extended the page and video architecture to support new moderation tools for gaming videos.
- Restructured the identity appeals back end to minimize errors and improve the response times.
Android Developer
Axon
- Restructured video management Android application with modern MVC design.
- Implemented performant real-time video watermarking on Android video recording application.
- Upgraded Android applications to remove deprecated libraries and migrate to modern tools.
Android Software Engineer
Cyanogen
- Implemented the remote folder functionality to display non-local applications in the Trebuchet launcher.
- Built the UI and client-side logic for a custom Android app store.
- Integrated an app advertisement system into various Android operating systems and launcher surfaces.
Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com
- Designed and implemented the categorization functionality for the content browser on the Kindle's Amazon Fire Launcher application.
- Built a new streamlined onboarding experience for the Kindle Fire Launcher application.
- Coordinated and resolved cross-team efforts to remediate errors on remote configuration deployment.
Experience
Unity Puzzle Game
I created the entire game, including gameplay mechanics, graphics, animations, and audio.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park - College Park, MD, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React
Tools
JetBrains Rider
Languages
Hack, GraphQL, C#, PHP, Java, JavaScript
Platforms
Oculus, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Android
Frameworks
Unity
Other
Games, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Networking, EntSchema, Videos, Amazon Fire TV
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