Yi Siew
Visual Language Programmer at Epic Games
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Siew is a Visual Language Programmer with 11 years of experience building high-performance tools and pipelines for games, animation, and XR. Currently at Epic Games, they help develop the Verse language and its compiler/toolchain while guiding an internal Verse IDE and ensuring smooth integration with Unreal Editor for Fortnite. Previously at Apple and Blizzard they architected production tooling across USD, animation, physics and rendering pipelines, often dropping to low-level debugging when needed. Yi excels at making code and tools fast for artists and developers alike, combining compiler engineering, DCC integration, and practical CI/testing frameworks. Based in California, they bring a rare blend of cinematic technical direction and systems-level language work, with a background in production animation from DigiPen.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Raffles Programme Year 4, GCE 'A' Levels Certificate, Raffles Programme Year 4, GCE 'A' Levels Certificate at Raffles InstitutionBachelor's Degree, Fine Arts in Production Animation, Bachelor's Degree, Fine Arts in Production Animation at Digipen Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
gif-animation10
projectile10
animated10
cpp10
game-development10
game-engine10
project-management10
animation10
imgui10
desktop-application10
emacs-lisp10
aseprite10
api10
emacs10
draw10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sonictk/yasnippet-snippets
Apr 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
yasnippetvscode-extensionlanguagessnippets
sonictk/maya_cpp_reference_docset
Feb 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches, 7 tags in 3 years 9 months
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