Sam Connolly
Principal AI Developer at Blizzard Entertainment
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Connolly is a Principal AI Developer based in Manchester with a decade of experience building high-performance AI systems for games and large-scale software. He specializes in data-oriented design and Entity Component Systems, shipping optimized C# DOTS/Burst solutions in Unity and performant C++ AI for studio pipelines. Sam has a balanced background across C++ and C#, plus backend experience in Java microservices and big-data tooling, which helps him bridge gameplay systems and production infrastructure. At Blizzard he implemented ECS-native perception and knowledge models, multithreaded environment queries, and editor-facing visualizations and testing frameworks to make complex agent behaviour observable and reliable. He mentors peers, runs an internal learning group, and brings a practical habit of turning research into debuggable, designer-friendly features.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Games Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Games Development at University of Lancashire
EnglishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SamConnolly94/PrioEngineMarkII
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
The second iteration of Prio Engine.
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
SamConnolly94/Prio-Engine
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:234 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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