Sheehan Ahmed
Technical Artist at Niantic, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSheehan Ahmed is a technical artist with nine years of experience crafting game tools, shaders, and pipelines, currently bringing expertise to Niantic after leading technical art at USC Games and co-founding Spookulele Games. Comfortable across Unity, HLSL, Maya, Substance, and Python/PyQt tooling, he has shipped systems ranging from ubershaders and custom audio middleware to in-engine debuggers and asset-management tools. As Creative Director and CTO he guided teams up to 50, contributing hands-on modeling, rigging, VFX, and architecture that supported flexible, Unreal-style gameplay frameworks. He favors optimization that keeps development creatively focused—an approach evident in shipping 1.5M+ Steam downloads for his studio—and pairs technical depth with a designer’s sensitivity to iteration, clarity, and gameplay fit.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Entertainment Computer Games and Programming Skills, Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Entertainment Computer Games and Programming Skills at University of Southern California
Github Skills (2)
interop4
csharp3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sahmed19/BloodMoon
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 year 1 month
sahmed19/MegaGameJam
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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