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Jason Shankel
Executive Software Engineer/CTO specializing in real-time 3D, game engines, and BIM platforms
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Game/interactive systems engineer with shipped Unity/C# work (including performance gains on iOS) and experience building creator-facing tooling like a plain-language level scripting system. Also implemented an OpenAI-powered UGC dialogue/event generation pipeline with offline fallback, and built multiplayer collaborative editing in Unreal for an architectural drafting product using checksum + delta synchronization.
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Key Strengths
- Owned and shipped Unity gameplay/UI systems end-to-end (scoping through implementation)
- Improved iOS transition-dialog framerate by moving from custom C# animations to Unity Animation System
- Built a plain-language scripting system enabling non-engineers to author new game levels
- Designed LLM-driven UGC authoring workflow with OpenAI plus offline fallback and failure alerts
- Cost-aware prompt engineering to keep LLM requests compact while producing rich outputs
- Implemented robust multiplayer/collaborative synchronization using checksums and delta-based updates
- Deep practical understanding of VR comfort constraints (prediction, latency, input tolerance)
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