Daniel Draper
Director at Mirror Door Interactive
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDaniel Draper is a director-level game engineer and solo indie developer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building core systems, rendering, tools and gameplay across AAA studios and indie projects. He’s shipped platform-spanning work (console, PC, VR) and has driven tooling, automation and asset pipelines for teams at Sledgehammer, Frostbite/EA and Samurai Punk. Now running Mirror Door Interactive, he crafts short, experimental Playdate experiences while maintaining a strong grounding in compilers, graphics and full-stack systems. Beyond engineering, he teaches game production, creates educational CS content, and has led small studios and community arts initiatives—bringing a rare mix of technical depth, pedagogy and creative direction.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Games Development), Bachelor of Computer Science (Games Development) at Swinburne University of Technology
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
dynamic-memory-allocation10
memory-allocation9
allocation9
malloc9
unit-test8
memory-management8
cpp7
activerecord6
routes6
fluentvalidation6
css6
dataannotations6
c115
testing5
jetbrains4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DrapsTV/DrapsTV_Materials
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 commits in 5 months
mtrebi/memory-allocators
Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
Custom memory allocators in C++ to improve the performance of dynamic memory allocation
Contributions:2 PRs in 2 years
memory-managementmemorydynamic-memory-allocationcppmemory-allocation
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