Peter Smith
Technical Director at First Touch Games Ltd.
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Smith is a Technical Director and seasoned game engineer with 14 years of experience building C++ game systems, backend services and tooling across studios and media companies. He rose through roles at MPC, Ubisoft and Prime Focus to co-found a games startup and now leads engineering at First Touch Games, blending hands-on development with team leadership on successful mobile titles. His background spans real-time graphics, scalable Python server architectures, asset pipelines and academic teaching—giving him a rare mix of production, research and pedagogy. Comfortable in both C++ and Unity/C#, he also ships asynchronous distributed systems (Tornado, NATS, Postgres) and has a history of creating artist-facing tools to remove workflow bottlenecks. Outside work he’s a long‑time D&D GM and frequent traveller, a detail that highlights his collaborative design instincts and love of storytelling.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PG Certificate, Education Practice, PG Certificate, Education Practice at Bournemouth UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Film Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Film Studies at University of Surrey
Github Skills (6)
voronoi3
drag-and-drop1
drag1
game-development1
game-engine1
unity3d1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pjsdev/cgbemu
Mar 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
pjsdev/pjsdev.github.io
Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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