Kevin Knight
Senior Gameplay Engineer at Mountaintop Studios
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Knight is a Senior Gameplay Engineer with a decade of experience building and shipping console and PC titles, currently at Mountaintop Studios after leading gameplay teams at Iron Galaxy. He is a C++/C# specialist who has deep Unreal Engine 4 expertise, strong Unity experience, and a track record across current and last-gen consoles as well as desktop games. Kevin has shipped on major releases like Rumbleverse, Dreadnought, and Elder Scrolls Online, while also independently launching a small title, Real Winners: Victoryball. Beyond gameplay systems and prototyping, he’s delivered UI, backend services, engine porting (Unreal, Unity, proprietary), and even a distributed build network — skills that make him effective across production and tooling pipelines. Based in Chicago with a 4.0 BS in Computer Games Development from DePaul, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-discipline collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ohlone CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Games Development, 4.0, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Games Development, 4.0 at DePaul University
american sign language (asl)
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KevinTKnight/FortniteProto
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
KevinTKnight/kevintknight.github.io
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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