Nikolai Ponomarev
Graphics Programmer at Ice-Pick Lodge
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNikolai Ponomarev is a seasoned graphics programmer with nine years’ experience building high-performance visual systems for Unity and consoles, currently at Ice-Pick Lodge. He has shipped custom Scriptable Render Pipelines, authored HLSL shaders and procedural-mesh effects, and led HDRP customization and multi-platform ports including PS4, Xbox One, Switch and mobile. Nikolai combines hands-on rendering work with gameplay integration and tooling, and has experience capturing mocap-driven cinematics for in-game cutscenes. A former lead on indie projects and creator of Grand Dad Mania Revived, he brings both studio and solo-developer sensibilities. Outside work he’s an avid rhythm-game fan (Beatmania IIDX) and brings that player’s attention to timing and feel into his graphics engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems and Technologies in Business, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems and Technologies in Business at Moscow University Of Finance And Law
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
unity3d9
reimplementation9
awt8
java8
rollback6
cross-platform6
libgdx6
addressables4
csharp-code3
experiment3
overlay1
color-gradient1
gradient1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Kolyasisan/Core-Update-Manager
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
A Performant Update Manager for Unity
Contributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 68 pushes in 2 years 1 month
unity3dupdateunityperformant
Kolyasisan/Core-Time-Manager
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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