Keir Meikle
Lead Software Engineer at PlaySide Studios
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKeir Meikle is a veteran game software engineer and lead with two decades of experience building gameplay, simulation, AI and audio systems across consoles, PC, mobile and VR. He has led distributed engineering teams to deliver next‑gen racing titles and live service infrastructure in Unreal Engine 5, while remaining a hands‑on C++/C# coder who optimises performance, tooling and studio pipelines. Equally comfortable prototyping novel mechanics and shipping polished player controls, Keir blends deep technical craft (procedural music/visuals, telemetry, motion platform integration) with people leadership and mentorship. Based in Melbourne, he has a rare background that spans high‑fidelity simulation, large‑scale art installations and experimental networked music projects, which informs pragmatic but creative design solutions.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, German, Polish, c++, c, python, c#
Github Skills (29)
telemetry9
automotive8
specification8
racing8
udp8
simulator8
nakama7
unreal6
chat6
ide6
blueprint6
multiplayer5
realtime4
editor4
robotics3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
makemob/bio-mimic-controller
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 117 pushes in 8 months
robotics-simulationroboticscontrollercoordinationpc-controller
motorsportgames/kartkraft-telemetry
Apr 2019 - Feb 2022
UDP telemetry specification and code examples for online racing simulator "KartKraft"
Contributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 9 months
racingautomotivespecificationkartkraftsimracing
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