Andrew Copland
Contract Software Engineer at Self-Employed
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Copland is a seasoned contract software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in game development, tools, and graphics across consoles and PC. He has shipped and modernized high-profile titles—helping prototype and release FallGuys, porting renderers between Vulkan and DirectX12, and implementing raytracing and store integrations for legacy and current platforms. Comfortable across C/C++, Lua and engine tooling, he excels at bridging gameplay, networking and editor/tool pipelines to accelerate production. Based in England, he runs a dormant contracting company for flexibility while taking senior engineering roles, reflecting a pragmatic mix of freelance agility and in-house delivery. Notably, he has repeatedly resurrected and modernized older codebases for current stores and platforms, showing a knack for practical modernization under real-world constraints.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced GNVQ Information Technology, Advanced GNVQ Information Technology at Yorkshire Coast CollegeBSc (hons) Visualisation, BSc (hons) Visualisation at Teesside University
Github Skills (37)
webgl10
simulation10
vulkan10
game-engine10
simulator10
sdl10
frontier10
glfw10
gles10
rendering10
user-interface10
cross-platform10
imgui10
graphical-user-interface10
metal10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fluffyfreak/bgfx
Feb 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
renderingopenglcross-platform
pioneerspacesim/pioneer-assets
Feb 2013 - Aug 2018
Asset sources for Pioneer
Contributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 years 7 months
assetpioneersources
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