Caryn Krakauer
Senior Gameplay Programmer at CD PROJEKT RED
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaryn Krakauer is a Senior Gameplay Programmer with a decade of experience building game systems and tools across studios from indie to AAA, now working at CD PROJEKT RED after senior AI work at Brass Lion Entertainment. She specialises in C++ game engine development, tooling and asset pipelines—evidenced by notable contributions to the Halley engine including a robust Aseprite importer, sprite atlas tooling, and editor UI enhancements. Her background spans real-time systems, AI and gameplay across companies like Chucklefish, Improbable and Monster Games, and she brings an MIT MEng in Computer Science to bear on performance-sensitive problems. Known for smoothing the designer-developer handoff, she often focuses on practical tooling that speeds iteration rather than just feature code.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Engineering, Computer Science, Master's of Engineering, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWayland High School
Github Skills (11)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
game-dev10
animate9
animation9
animated9
ui-design7
front-end-development7
uid7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
amzeratul/halley
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
A lightweight game engine written in modern C++
Role in this project:
Game Engine Developer
Game Engine DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 22 PRs, 94 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Caryn primarily focused on enhancing the Halley game engine, with significant contributions to the asset importing pipeline. They implemented and refined an Aseprite importer, incorporating features for handling group-separated and sequence-separated animations, as well as improving sprite sheet and atlas generation. Additionally, the user made UI improvements to the asset editor, and fixed several scene editor bugs and added vector and color editing to components.
cppgame-engine
callumlawson/Sellout
Nov 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:117 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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