Kelly Mccarter
Senior Game Programmer at TeamLazerBeam
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Mccarter is a Senior Game Programmer based in Cape Town with eight years of experience bridging technical art and software engineering to deliver interactive games, VR experiences, and developer tools. Starting as a technical artist, Kelly evolved into a systems-minded Unity engineer and architect, shipping production features and tools across roles at RenderHeads, Carry1st, and now TeamLazerBeam. She brings a rare blend of artistic pipeline fluency (Maya, Nuke, Arnold) and robust systems design, enabling smoother collaboration between art and engineering teams. Known for tackling both runtime systems and creator tooling, Kelly focuses on practical solutions that improve artist workflows while scaling performance in real projects. Her background in 3D animation gives her an edge in visual problem-solving and shader/asset workflows that often sit outside a typical programmer’s skillset. Based in South Africa, she combines hands-on development with a knack for building maintainable architectures for interactive experiences.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Animation, 3D animation - Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Mudbox, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Nuke, Arnold, Diploma, Animation, 3D animation - Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Mudbox, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Nuke, Arnold at The Animation SchoolMatric IEB, Physical Science and Chemistry, Art, Technical drawing, English and Afrikaanse, Core Math, Grade 12 Matric, Matric IEB, Physical Science and Chemistry, Art, Technical drawing, English and Afrikaanse, Core Math, Grade 12 Matric at Creston College
English, Afrikaans, German
Github Skills (21)
structures9
pattern9
bounding9
hierarchy8
crossword8
gameplay7
module-pattern7
iteration7
slack-bot7
transform7
websocket-client6
slack6
websocket6
python6
git-repository6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RenderHeads/UnityPlugin-GitSubRepositoryManager
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
A git repository manager for Unity with a focus on ease of use and fast iteration.
Contributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
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rossborchers/UnityGitRepositoryManager
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
A git repository manager for Unity with a focus on ease of use and fast iteration.
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
crosswordgit-repositoryrepository-managerunityease-of-use
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