Alex Gilday
Senior Gameplay Programmer at Lucid Games Ltd
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gilday is a Senior Gameplay Programmer with 14 years of hands-on experience building interactive systems and shipping game features across studios including Lucid Games and Improbable. He taught himself Java as a teen to create successful Minecraft mods, went on to earn a First in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, and has since applied that curiosity to gameplay systems, tools and performance-sensitive engine work. His background includes a string of impactful internships at Arm where he contributed to tooling, drivers and open-source projects, giving him a strong foundation in low-level systems and optimization. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, Alex blends deep technical craft with a lifelong obsession for player-facing code, often bridging research ideas such as reinforcement learning for efficiency into practical engineering solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hills Road Sixth Form CollegeMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, First, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, First at University of Southampton
Github Skills (11)
elemental9
forge7
minecraft7
wifi2
plugin1
spigot1
irc-bot1
bukkit1
usb1
irc1
java1
Github contributions (5)
xSmallDeadGuyx/ElementalCreepers
Mar 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:4 releases, 13 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year
minecraftelementalmodminecraft-modforge
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