Nikolai Prigodich
Game Security Programmer at Ubisoft Düsseldorf
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNikolai Prigodich is a game security programmer with 11 years of experience building low-level systems for AAA and indie titles, currently developing company-wide security solutions at Ubisoft Düsseldorf. His background spans gameplay, engine and rendering work—including texture streaming, post-processing and DX10 support on World of Warships—before shifting into reverse engineering and anti-tamper protections. He has led Unity teams and implemented network, Steam integration and in-memory protection features for multiplayer shooters, and contributed engine-level particle systems to the classic Storm engine used in Sea Dogs and Age of Pirates. Comfortable with Windows internals, compilers and graphics, he combines hands-on reverse-engineering skills with production-focused engineering. Colleagues rely on him to bridge deep technical investigation and pragmatic security tooling across large game codebases.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Programmer, Computer and Automated Systems Software, 4.6/5, Technical Programmer, Computer and Automated Systems Software, 4.6/5 at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет Информационных Технологий, Механики и Оптики (Университет ИТМО)
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Github Skills (8)
engine10
c-language10
particle-system10
game-engine10
cprogramming-language10
directx10
3d-graphics9
cmake7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
storm-devs/storm-engine
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Game engine behind Sea Dogs, Pirates of the Caribbean and Age of Pirates games.
Role in this project:
Game Engine Developer
Game Engine DeveloperContributions:206 reviews, 259 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikolai's primary contribution appears to be focused on particle system implementation and maintenance within the game engine. They added the 'Move vanilla Storm Engine 2.8 to git' commit, which involves substantial code modifications, including the addition of a new particle system class, 'SHARKS_PS'. This class handles particle rendering, initialization, and updating. There are also further additions for applying Steam version of SD-TEHO.
gameageenginestorm-enginegames
storm-devs/sd-teho-public
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Scripts and configs for Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 3 months
minecraftgameconfigssea-dogsstorm-engine
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