Kevin Balz
Junior Engine Programmer (Generalist) at Crytek
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Balz is a junior engine programmer and generalist software engineer based in Mainz with 11 years of hands-on experience building systems in C++ and C#. He has shipped consumer-facing Unity work (the touristic app schaz) and contributed to performance-sensitive firmware and multi-threaded pipelines for an eye tracker, achieving a 25% runtime speedup. Before joining Crytek he worked across full-stack and platform roles, delivering mobile app platforms, client apps, and backend systems. Kevin enjoys designing internal tools and systems that improve team productivity and reliably get used in production. His background tutoring C/C++ and cross-domain experience—from embedded firmware to game engines—makes him comfortable bridging low-level performance work and higher-level application development.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Hochschule Worms
German, English
Github Skills (41)
hearthstone10
parser9
tmx9
ini9
emitter9
swift8
tilemap8
map-editor8
tiled8
fltk8
yaml8
tiles8
twine7
tilesets7
cpp7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TakoEngine/tako
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:210 commits, 11 PRs, 184 pushes in 4 years 5 months
KevinBalz/tako
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:81 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
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