Samantha Turner
Lead Gameplay Programmer at Halfbrick
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSamantha Turner is a Lead Gameplay Programmer with 10 years' experience crafting high-performance, data-driven mobile games from prototype to live service. Based in Ballarat, Australia, she has led the port of Fruit Ninja to Unity, built Live-Ops systems, and optimized gameplay across a wide range of devices while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR, COPPA and CCPA. Samantha combines hands-on C++ and Unity/C# engineering with mentorship, tooling and analytics work—using BigQuery, Tableau, Looker, Firebase and PlayFab—to close the loop between metric-driven decisions and player-facing features. She’s comfortable refactoring large legacy codebases, integrating ads/analytics SDKs and shipping split-testing and content pipelines that scale. Outside work she brings a creative curiosity—interests in coffee, Japanese culture and space travel—that complements her collaborative approach with artists and designers.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Victorian Certificate of Education, Victorian Certificate of Education at Ballarat Grammar SchoolBachelor of Information Technology and Systems, Information Technology, Computing, Video Games Development, 81.103 WAM, Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems, Information Technology, Computing, Video Games Development, 81.103 WAM at Monash University
English, Japanese
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Github contributions (5)
Siberias/GetMeOntoTonberry
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
Notify me when I can make a character on FFXIV's Tonberry Server
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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Siberias/CryoStarEngine
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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