Sondre Agledahl
Gameplay Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSondre Agledahl is a gameplay software engineer and final-year MEng Computer Science student at UCL with nine years’ experience building interactive systems across game, VR and backend domains. He has shipped production-grade interaction work at Amazon and contributed to Unreal and Unity VR projects at Existent, and now applies his gameplay expertise at Meta after a stint at Anduril. A long-time game developer and modder, he led substantial changes to the decompilation of Pokémon FireRed and created the notable Rocket Edition GBA ROM hack, reflecting deep familiarity with retro game logic and tooling. His master's project explored eye-gaze interaction for VR, blending research-led HCI with practical implementation, and he regularly uses Unity for over three years while also refactoring core game code in C for classic titles.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Senja Videregående SkoleUniversity College London
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (6)
c1710
decompilation10
reverse-engineering10
c1110
gameboy-advance10
pokemongo9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pret/pokefirered
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Decompilation of Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sondre primarily focused on modifying and documenting code related to the initial game setup, specifically the Oak speech sequence. They updated the `oak_speech.c` file, documenting various fields and making changes to how trainer pictures are loaded and displayed. Additionally, the user refactored code related to the trainer picture functionality, and changed variable names for better clarity. This work indicates a focus on core game logic within the decompilation project.
mondecompilationgameboy-advancereverse-engineeringc
colonelsalt/Rocket-Edition
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
ROM hack of Pokémon FireRed, in which you play as the bad guys.
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 1 push in 2 months
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