Jacob Van Der Vliet
Technical Director at All Out
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Van Der Vliet is a Technical Director and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building game engines, developer tools, and live game services across studios like All Out, EA’s Frostbite team, and DoubleJump Games. He specialises in tooling and engine-level systems—shipping features such as colour interpolation for timelines and migrating systems to ECS—while leading small teams to deliver high‑scale game experiences (including a Roblox title with ~90M visits and multiple Minecraft servers reaching 2M+ users). Based in Canada, he blends hands‑on engine work with product-minded leadership, focusing on empowering developers to build games faster. Outside work he continues to design games and engines from scratch, reflecting a persistent curiosity for low-level systems and gameplay tech.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Camosun College
English
Github Skills (47)
programming-language9
stack-based9
odin8
compiler8
odin-lang8
interpreter8
odin-programming-language7
workbench6
2d6
engine6
sdk6
minecraft6
game-development5
game-engine4
server4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DrProfesor/odin-dx
May 2020 - Sep 2020
DirectX11 bindings for Odin
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 3 months
directx11odin
DrProfesor/odinscape
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:64 pushes in 5 months
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