Philip Buuck
UI Engineering Director at Epic Games
River Grove, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Buuck is a UI engineering leader with 11 years of experience shaping player-facing interfaces across top game studios, currently serving as UI Engineering Director at Epic Games. He has progressed from UI Programmer roles to engineering management at Riot and leadership at Epic, blending hands-on UI engineering with multidisciplinary collaboration across UX, visual design, and technical teams. Philip’s background in game development (M.S. from DePaul) and an early career in theater give him a rare mix of technical rigor and attention to user-focused storytelling. Known for shipping complex in-game systems and mentoring cross-functional teams, he thrives at the intersection of design intent and performant implementation. Based in River Grove, Illinois, he brings studio-scale product experience and a knack for translating artistic direction into robust, scalable UI architectures.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Video Game Development, Master of Science (M.S.) Video Game Development at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Arts Theater, Bachelor of Arts Theater at Hunter College
English
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4questions
Github Skills (11)
examine10
rebuild8
quake7
file-handling6
struct6
linker6
matrix6
compiler-construction6
pointer6
access-rights6
visual-studio3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
philipbuuck/HandmadeQuake
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
handmadeexaminerebuildvideoquake
philipbuuck/Quake-2-VS2013
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Building Quake 2 using Visual Studio 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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