Dominic Sabatier
Sessional Instructor at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDominic Sabatier is a game-focused software developer and instructor with a decade of experience building character controllers, UI systems, and tools across Unity and Unreal. He has shipped gameplay and UI code on live titles like Nightingale and contributed to licensed mobile games while serving as a senior UI programmer at multiple studios. As a sessional instructor and former game programming teacher, he pairs hands-on production experience with an ability to communicate engineering fundamentals to diverse learners. Dominic’s background spans C#, C++, Blueprint, materials and UI tooling, reflecting a practical blend of art-facing and systems engineering. Based in Edmonton, he brings both studio-side delivery discipline and indie/contract flexibility, often tackling the nuanced interactions between animation, input, and responsive UI. An illustrator-turned-developer, he leverages visual design training to craft player-facing systems that feel polished and intentional.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Digital Illustration and Sequential Art, Diploma, Digital Illustration and Sequential Art at Edmonton Digital Arts CollegeTechnical Diploma, Web Development, Technical Diploma, Web Development at Durham College
English
Github Skills (51)
rendering10
react-hooks9
javascript9
webgl9
push-notifications9
2d-game9
canvas9
react-native-app9
phaser9
crashlytics9
storage9
firestore9
mobile-web9
obsolete9
game-development9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dsabatier/Design-Patterns
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
dsabatier/modes-lesson-js
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 24 days
teachingjavascriptmodesassist
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