Theo Erickson
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTheo Erickson is a C++-focused gameplay engineer and technical designer with a decade of experience building combat, character, and data-driven systems for AAA action titles and indie projects. He blends hands-on C++ and Blueprint development in Unreal Engine with systems architecture, rapid prototyping, and mentorship to bridge design and engineering teams. Recent roles include owning minute-to-minute combat systems at Deviation Games and leading core character frameworks and pipelines at Sovereign Axe Studios, while simultaneously contributing to open-source 3D printing tooling via a feature-rich OrcaSlicer fork. Theo favors modular, data-first designs—shipping tooling that accelerates designer iteration (data assets, hot-reload pipelines, versioned slice backups) and reduces friction between disciplines. He’s comfortable extending proprietary engines and shipping polished UX features, and often surfaces developer-facing improvements that later become upstream contributions. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a designer’s creativity with engineer-level rigor to deliver playable systems that scale across teams and platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
jam5
rpg2
game-development1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexcovert/SavvyEscapism
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
CMPM 170 Prototype Block 1
Contributions:51 pushes in 10 days
prototype
Theo-Erickson/CosmicChaos
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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