Charlie Haslam

Games Programmer

Dec 2022 - Present

Graduate Games Programmer

Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

Climax Studios, Portsmouth, UK

• Unannounced PS5/PSVR2 title of a globally recognised franchise

• Leading the VR team to bring a custom engine to a new platform
• Bringing the title to PSVR2 with stricter performance budgets than you would find on PC
• Making use of development tools to capture, profile and debug
• Implementing new engine-level features to radically boost GPU performance

• Age of Empires IV for Xbox

• Worked on a variety of new gameplay features, some of which were then also pulled across into the live PC version
• Worked closely with the design team on new features as well as working with them to script a whole new series of campaign missions
• Created some engine tools and documentation to assist with design tasks
• Also worked on key UI systems like radial menus and complex HUD elements
• Proprietary engine using C++, Lua for gameplay/scenario scripting and XAML/C# for UI functionality

Software Development Internship (Summer Placement)

2020

Epimorphics, Bristol, UK

• Worked on a Python-based data conversion tool
• Used to clean-up and convert data from CSV files to RDF triples
• Helped to make collecting data from clients and starting new contracts much easier

Software Development Internship (Summer Placement)

2019

Epimorphics, Bristol, UK

• Worked on an internal project management dashboard
• A backend written in Python (Flask) and frontend using VueJS
• Collected data from various services such as Github and Asana to display progress on projects
• Saved management the time spent collecting resources themselves and was useful for stand-up meetings

Teaching Assistant (Part-Time)

2019 - 2020

University of Bristol, UK

• Assisted in weekly undergraduate labs
• Helped first year students with an Imperative (C) programming unit
• Answered questions from students and helped debug code

MEng Computer Science

2017 - 2021

University of Bristol, UK

Notable project and units:

• Graphics - Achieved a grade of 85 for a ray-traced renderer written in C++
• Games Project - Completed a large group project and awarded a first-class grade (Unity3D with C#)
• High Performance Computing - Took both an Introductory and Advanced unit, learning to use a super-computer for simulations (written in C using OpenMP, MPI and OpenCl)
• Image Processing & Computer Vision - Produced coursework using Hough transforms and Viola-Jones to detect dartboards in images (C++)
• Software Product Engineering - Worked with a client to make a complete webapp used to design muscle-like 3D printed parts for robotics and hydraulics, written in Java, HTML & Javascript
• Applied Deep Learning - Studied a masters level Deep Learning unit, using PyTorch to train neural networks using a super-computer

Some of these projects can be found in my portfolio below. GitHub repos may also be available upon request.

A-Levels

2015 - 2017

Queen Mary's College - Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK

A*ABB in Maths, Computer Science, Physics and Further Maths

GCSEs

2010 - 2015

Hurst Community College - Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK

12 GCSEs A*-C
FSMQ in Further Maths

Ultimate Frisbee

2017-Present

University of Bristol, UK

• Treasuer/President

Scout Leader

2013-Present

Personal Games Projects

• Completed a range of games projects in spare time
• Participation in Game Jams
• Mainly using tools such as Unity3D, Blender and Photoshop
• Worked on multiplayer, mobile and desktop projects, 2 of which can be found on the Google Play store

English

Fluent - first language

French

Fluent - mother is French

Spanish

Basic - GCSE and option unit at university