Summary
Yifei Chen is a tools programmer with nine years of experience building developer-facing systems for games and research projects, currently creating pipelines and utilities for Death Stranding 2 at KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. With a Master's in Computer Graphics from The University of Tokyo and a background spanning Hitachi R&D and Polyphony Digital, he blends character animation and machine learning expertise to deliver practical tooling—from motion analyzers to Unreal Engine digital twins. He has built LLM-based supply chain risk tools and integrated GPT, Llama2, Falcon, and LangChain into production workflows, showing fluency across AI and real-time graphics stacks. Based in Tokyo, he brings a playful, user-focused mindset (and a cat-like handle) to making complex pipelines accessible for artists and engineers alike.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at New York Institute of Technology
University of Tokyo