Ryan Sheffer
Lead Programmer at Solar Storm Interactive
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Sheffer is a Lead Programmer with 11 years of experience crafting immersive interactive entertainment, specializing in Unreal Engine and Virtual Reality. Based in Coquitlam, BC, he has led technical direction and shipped titles across PC, Quest, mobile, and bespoke hardware, including Consortium VR and Consortium Remastered, while building in-house systems for real-time choreographing and advanced human↔NPC interaction. He blends hands-on engine work, tooling and backend maintenance (Perforce, Jenkins, Git) with applied AI techniques such as low-latency speech recognition to create naturalistic NPC conversations. Ryan also consults on spatial and mixed-reality prototypes for Meta Reality Labs and other studios, and maintains Unreal Engine plugins and experimental tech for next-generation storytelling. A pragmatic systems thinker, he pairs deep gameplay and AI design experience with practical delivery—often inventing bespoke middleware to solve problems that don’t fit off-the-shelf tools.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
English
Github Skills (23)
blueprint10
unreal-engine-510
quest10
unreal-engine-410
plugin10
unreal10
map-files10
external10
quake9
fbx8
oculus-quest8
oculus8
packaging7
metadata7
visualization6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rfsheffer/QuestHands
Dec 2019 - May 2020
An Unreal Engine 4 plugin for the new Oculus Quest hands tracking. To tied us over till Oculus's official release.
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
oculus-questunreal-enginequestunrealhands
rfsheffer/SPUD
Aug 2021 - Jun 2024
Steve's Persistent Unreal Data library
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
unreal-enginesteveunrealdata-librarypersistent
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