VR Developer

Senior VR Developer — OmniSpatial Laboratories

Seattle, WA | June 2023 – Present

• Engineered a customized gaze-and-gesture selection system using Unity and C#, reducing average user UI selection errors by 32% and increasing average session length by 18%.
• Optimized vertex-shader allocations and Level of Detail (LOD) systems in Unreal Engine, reducing CPU frame rendering time by 22% and maintaining 90 FPS across 5 headset models.
• Built a modular physics-based multiplayer networking layer using Photon Fusion, enabling 15 simultaneous remote users to interact with shared 3D assets in real time.
• Led a collaborative sprint workflow with 4 technical artists to rebuild lighting environments, reducing overall mobile-VR application bundle size by 450MB and startup lag by 14%.

VR Developer — Aetherial Gaming Studios

Portland, OR | August 2020 – May 2023

• Programmed 25 core gameplay interaction scripts in C# for a cross-platform VR title, reducing the open bug count during the QA regression phase by 38% over a 4-month period.
• Designed and verified custom controller-mapping profiles for 3 separate VR hardware ecosystems, boosting first-time user tutorial completion rate from 68% to 92%.
• Re-architected real-time spatial audio queries and occlusion filters, reducing CPU performance overhead by 16% and improving directional sound tracking accuracy by 25%.
• Refined and optimized high-poly environmental models and texture maps using Blender, saving 350MB of memory allocation and preventing visual stutter during locomotion.

C# programming, C++ programming, Unity, Unreal Engine, spatial UI design, real-time optimization, physics engines, spatial audio integration, Git, SDK integration, shader development, usability testing, performance profiling

Haptic Feedback Integration Library

Role: Lead Software Engineer

Tools: Unity, C#, OpenXR, GitHub

Created an open-source haptic mapping library that decreased haptic latency by 35% and was adopted by 8 independent development studios.

Medical VR Surgery Simulator

Role: Senior VR Developer

Tools: Unreal Engine, C++, Meta Quest 3, Blender

Programmed the primary interaction module for a surgical simulation, reducing target task execution errors by 28% across 14 training trials.

• Unity Certified Professional: Programmer (2022)
• Epic Games Unreal Engine Associate Certification (2021)
• Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) Spatial UI Design (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), Japanese (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Mentor at Seattle Youth Game Coding Academy (2022-Present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice