David Gillen
Software Engineer at NAIT
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Gillen is a Technical Artist and Tools Developer with a decade of experience designing production-ready art pipelines, interactive content, and game systems. Based in Edmonton, he has blended hands-on level design and gameplay programming work—from community-driven projects like Black Mesa to commercial roles at Serious Labs and gskinner—while teaching mobile and cross-compile game development at NAIT. He excels at bridging art and engineering, building tools that speed up content creation and adapt 3D assets to real-time constraints. Comfortable in startup and remote-collaboration environments, he has led technical direction on small studios and contributed major levels to a high-profile community remake. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem solver who pairs creative sensibility with robust technical practices.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete, Computer Engineering Technology, Incomplete, Computer Engineering Technology at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (52)
webgl10
threejs10
javascript10
html5-canvas10
unreal-engine-510
game-engine10
hierarchical10
animation10
createjs10
rendering10
experiences10
typescript10
sml10
tween10
oculus-quest10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DavidHGillen/Documentation-1
Jun 2020 - Mar 2023
Documentation for SML and Unreal modding.
Contributions:22 pushes in 2 years 9 months
smlunreal-engineunrealue4modding
DavidHGillen/Satisfactory_ModelingTools
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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