Alistair Wick
Senior Animation Programmer
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Wick is a Senior Animation Programmer with 12 years of experience crafting next-generation character animation and simulation systems, currently shaping movement and behaviour at Rockstar Games. His background spans robotics, graphics, and real-time simulation from indie R&D at Anomotion Interactive to high-profile game development, blending C++ systems work with Python prototyping and hands-on hardware design. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from UBC and presented research at SIGGRAPH, reflecting a research-led approach to practical engineering. Known for making “virtual people move,” he combines low-level performance tuning with creative problem solving—often iterating with physical prototypes and custom tooling to close the loop between simulation and reality.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels, A*AA, A-Levels, A*AA at Archbishop Tenison's Sixth FormMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of Bristol
Github Skills (71)
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pygame10
robot10
robotics9
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kinect9
python9
gpu9
arm9
hardware9
arduino9
driver9
electricity8
deep-learning8
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gotg/pod
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:182 pushes, 9 branches, 3 comments in 10 months
felina/image-annotator
Feb 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:107 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
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