Sean Ryder
Software Engineer at Control Techniques
Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Ryder is a pragmatic software engineer based in Shrewsbury with 12 years of hands-on experience and a First-class BSc in Computing Software Development. He’s proficient in C, C++, C#, and Java, with a strong emphasis on C++ from his final-year project and professional work at Control Techniques since 2018. An active contributor to game engine rendering, he has improved OpenGL visuals and fixed model/sprite rendering and skybox issues in the notable SRB2 project, demonstrating low-level graphics and debugging chops. Comfortable across embedded/industrial and application-level code, he brings a blend of academic distinction and practical problem-solving, often surfacing subtle rendering fixes that improve user-facing visuals.
12 years of coding experience
BSc (Hons), Computing Software Development, First, BSc (Hons), Computing Software Development, First at The University of WolverhamptonHND, Applied Computing, Distinction, HND, Applied Computing, Distinction at Staffordshire UniversityLevel 3 BTEC Extended Diploma, Information Technology, Distinction* Distinction* Distinction*, Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma, Information Technology, Distinction* Distinction* Distinction* at Shrewsbury College
English
Github Skills (7)
3d-graphics10
game-development10
c-programming10
opengl10
render10
texture-mapping10
sprite10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
STJr/SRB2
Mar 2014 - Dec 2019
SRB2 2.2 Public
Role in this project:
Game Programmer
Game ProgrammerContributions:199 commits, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on improving the rendering and functionality of the game SRB2. They implemented fixes for the drawing of MD2 models, the rendering of sprites with holes, the screen wipes, and the skybox. Additionally, they modified existing code related to the rendering of sprites, and added code to correctly handle specific visual effects, and incorporated fixes for various bugs related to OpenGL and other aspects of the game's visuals.
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