Fabien Poupineau
Technical Director at Rainbow Unicorn Games
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFabien Poupineau is a Technical Director with nearly two decades in the games industry, currently leading gameplay and UI engineering at People Can Fly in Montreal and mentoring the next generation of leads and programmers. He combines hands-on Unreal Engine expertise—especially around Gameplay Ability System, UI architecture and performance—with proven hiring, planning and code-review discipline across AAA and live-service projects. His background spans major studios including Ubisoft and Behaviour Interactive, where he set up project architectures, build pipelines and multiplayer best practices. Beyond studio roles he invests in and advises indie teams, helping them avoid scalability and architectural pitfalls from day one. He also contributes open-source tooling and runs a community-minded non-profit coaching youth basketball, a detail that reflects his long-standing commitment to mentorship and team development.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
EseoMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at EPSI - L'école d'ingénierie informatique
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
tournament10
unreal-engine-510
plugin10
unreal10
quake9
python8
asynchronous8
async8
unreal-engine-48
multiplayer8
python-bindings5
asyncio5
api4
tactical4
external4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fp12/fp12.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 80 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
fp12/yahtr
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 141 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
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