Summary
Eric Kim is a technical artist and software engineer with nine years of experience translating creative vision into polished game systems and tools. Now at Rockstar San Diego, he has a strong track record from Blind Squirrel Games of shipping UI, gameplay, and tech-art integrations across PC and console, including virtual cursor/keyboard systems and cross-platform control schemes. He excels at collaborating with designers and artists to prototype features, author APIs, and produce clear technical documentation that enables teams to iterate quickly. Comfortable working end-to-end, he has deep hands-on experience retrofitting legacy systems, building editor tooling, and solving platform-specific challenges like controller support and font rendering. Based in Carlsbad, CA, Eric pairs a broad curiosity about every facet of game development with the independence to own whatever needs getting done.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
De Anza College
University of California, Irvine