Artur Ilkaev
Lead Technical Artist at Rovio Entertainment Corporation
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolArtur Ilkaev is a Lead Technical Artist at Rovio with over a decade of games industry experience spanning shader programming, FX, procedural assets, tools and graphics programming, and animation pipelines. He blends deep artistic craft—PBR material and texture generation—with solid engineering skills in C# and other languages to streamline workflows and ship polished, performant visuals. His career moves from low-level programming and broadcast VFX to leading technical art teams show a rare crossover between systems thinking and visual storytelling. Based in Espoo, Finland, he pairs production leadership with hands-on problem solving, often building bespoke tools and procedural solutions that accelerate asset creation. Notably, his background includes both running technical art at mid-size studios and contributing senior engineering expertise in broader software teams, reflecting a hybrid technical-artist profile few possess.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
incomplete, Economics, incomplete, Economics at Kamchatka State University named after Vitus Bering (former Kamchatka Pedagogical University)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Transporta un Sakaru Institutsartist, Fine and Studio Arts, artist, Fine and Studio Arts at Yelizovo Art School
English, Russian
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Github Skills (19)
kotlin7
rgb6
objective-c6
colors6
kotlin-coroutines6
scanning5
barcode-scanner5
barcodes5
ean135
reader5
face5
datamatrix4
android-library4
face-recognition4
android4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
32xlevel/SkillArticles
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:125 commits, 44 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months
32xlevel/iscanner
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
An android library for scanning QR codes and barcodes with simple implementation
Contributions:56 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 months
qrcodebarcodesqr-scanningandroid-libraryandroid
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