Eric Knapik
Engine Programmer at Epic Games
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Knapik is an engine programmer with 11 years of experience focused on Unreal Engine development, from core engine internals to gameplay systems. Currently a Gameplay Engineer on Fortnite Creative at Epic Games, he brings deep practical knowledge of rendering, graphics, and platform deployment across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. His background spans cloud and backend work (CloudKit, Django) and tooling—he built an open-source doc/analysis tool at Exablox that used DFA and probabilistic NLP techniques. Known for boosting backend processing throughput (a reported 6000% increase), he combines performance-minded systems engineering with gameplay-first thinking. Based in Seattle, he quietly bridges game-engine depth and production-scale shipping, with a Github presence that paused after joining Unreal but reflects his move into high-impact engine work.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyNotre Dame Cathedral Latin
Github Skills (9)
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golang1
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part-of-speech-tagger1
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Github contributions (5)
EKnapik/IlluminationComparison
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:116 commits, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
EKnapik/Lighthouse_RayTracer
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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