Jak Barnes
Senior Systems Engineer at Team Terrible
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJak Barnes is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in gameplay, systems and Unreal Engine development across console, PC, VR and mobile platforms. He has shipped content on high-profile live-service titles—including work on Sea of Thieves’ 'A Pirates Life' and Season 7—and brings hands-on expertise in gameplay, AI, performance optimization and accessibility. Comfortable across C++ and tools development, Jak has a track record of taking features from prototyping to release while improving pipelines and localization. Colleagues describe him as approachable, energetic and endlessly curious, often preferring to explore whether something can be done rather than whether it should. Now based in England, he’s transitioned into senior systems work at Team Terrible after leading Unreal engineering at Radical Forge. Outside of shipping games he’s an avid tinkerer and problem solver who thrives on learning new technologies and iterating quickly.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Games Programming, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Games Programming at The University of Huddersfield13 GCSE's A-C, 13 GCSE's A-C at Morecambe Community High SchoolICT Business Mathematics Physics, ICT Business Mathematics Physics at Morecambe Community High School 6th Form
English
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
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4questions
Github Skills (30)
game-engine10
linux10
user-interface10
imgui10
graphical-user-interface10
videogames10
api10
android10
embedded10
webassembly10
cpp10
game-development10
opengl10
raylib10
cross-platform9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Syphonx/qcpu-cpp
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
an emulator for a fictional 16bit CPU, complete with assembler and web frontend
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
16bitcpuemulatorassemblerfictional
cesque/jak-portfolio
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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