Jeffrey Persons
Game Programmer at GamesByJeffPersons
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Persons is a gameplay-focused software engineer with nine years of realtime and game development experience, including 4+ years shipping cross-platform titles on mobile, VR, and PC. He’s fluent in C# and C++ and has delivered gameplay, animation, UI, and tools across live-service and indie projects—improving asset pipelines, optimizing streaming and load performance, and shipping feature-driven releases at Zynga and Series Entertainment. Prior to games he built realtime C++ systems for semiconductor robotics and backend services for security products, which informs his systems-first approach to performance and tooling. He’s actively maintaining his indie project Penguin Quest and has a track record of turning slow pipelines into dramatic speedups (e.g., a 15x asset upload improvement), making him especially effective on 3D, performance-sensitive gameplay teams. Open to remote or Philadelphia-based roles, he prefers gameplay-heavy work in Unity, Unreal, or in-house C++ for PC/console and simulation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at San José State UniversityAssociate’s Degree, Computer Science, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science at Foothill College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
pong10
inkscape10
penguin10
quest9
inverse-kinematics9
side-scroller9
crossword9
raytracing9
cpp8
reflection8
openmp8
multicore8
lda8
csharp8
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jeffreypersons/Paddle-Whacker
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
A unique take on old style of game, taking elements from pong and air hockey
Contributions:278 commits, 112 PRs, 653 pushes in 2 years 6 months
gameelementsponghockeygame-of
jeffreypersons/RayTracer
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
A simple ray tracer written from scratch in C++, with multicore support, customizable camera, attenuation, gamma correction, reflection, shadows, and more!
Contributions:5 reviews, 211 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 2 months
cppmulticorereflectiongraphicsmath
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