Experience
Work
Fifteen years, four countries' worth of studios, and one codebase I never put down.
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2025 — Present
BeamNGCurrent
Graphics / Engine Programmer
Remote
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2022 — 2024
AMD
MTS Developer Technology Engineer
Studios ship on AMD hardware whether or not it runs well on it. My job was making sure it ran well on it.
- Embedded with top studios, Rocksteady among them, on site and remote, profiling their frames and rewriting the parts that did not hold up.
- Took the same material on stage, delivering technical talks across the UK and Europe.
- Worked across a number of shipped titles, several of which I still cannot name.
Some of the titles I worked on during those two years.
Returnal 
The Callisto Protocol 
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 
Fort Solis UK and Europe
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2020 — 2022
Codemasters (EA)
Senior Graphics Programmer
Shipped Dirt 5 on the in-house Neon engine, across six platforms with wildly different budgets — from Stadia streaming to Xbox Series X.
Manchester, UK
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2016 — 2019
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Generalist Programmer
I left Greece for the UK to work on an ambitious PSVR title. It was cancelled after a few years, which is the risk you take. The work itself was some of the most interesting I have done.
- Built an environmental-analysis AI driven by fuzzy logic, so agents picked cover and navigation routes that read as human rather than as pathfinding.
- Built the tooling around it: a 3D and VR debug GUI, and Jenkins CI integration for the team.
Manchester, UK
Education and distinctions
Where it started
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2010 — 2016
BSc Computer Science & Telecommunications
Built a Kinect-based natural user interface that drew national attention, and became a Microsoft Student Partner off the back of it.
University of Thessaly -
2014
Imagine Cup World Finalist
World-class distinction in the games category, with a turn-based strategy game built by a permanently sleep-deprived student team.
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington -
2010
Certificate of Proficiency in English
The end of a ten-year study programme. It is the reason I could take the job in the UK when it came.
University of Michigan
Earlier work
2011 to 2016, in Greece
Student projects, hackathon builds and Windows Store experiments. Small, scrappy, and the reason the rest of this page exists.
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2016
Car simulation experiments
A realistic car model built on variations of Pacejka's tyre friction formula. The first pass at what is now a 200 Hz simulation inside my engine.
C#, Unity -
2015
Da Vinci's Ornithopter
An infinite runner with RPG elements and mini-games. Six months in I accepted that it needed a programmer, an artist, a designer and a sound engineer. I was one of those.
C#, Unity -
2015
The Screen Space
A Ludum Dare entry with Kickback Studios. I built the player controls, a jetpack, and a rope-and-bucket grappling hook, all physics driven.
C#, Unity -
2014
Dementia
A turn-based table game with RPG elements, and our Imagine Cup entry. I did the UI, the AI, the pathfinding and most of the gameplay. A never-ending crunch that ended with us wandering around Microsoft HQ as world finalists.
C#, Unity -
2014
Genesis Game Studios site
Our team started getting attention, so I built and shipped the studio's web presence, logo included.
WordPress, Azure -
2014
Hexcraft
A tile-based puzzle game. I built the UI and the online leaderboards.
C#, Unity, Azure -
2014
2D Audio Mixer
A spatial approach to mixing: the dot in the circle is the listener, every other dot is a source, and distance is volume.
C#, Unity -
2014
Encircle the Rat
A turn-based game where you try to corner a rat. The rat uses A* and is better at this than you are.
C#, Unity -
2012
Da Vinci's Flying Machine
Built in a few days at a Microsoft hackathon in Athens. Won fourth place and best splash screen, then did well as a paid Windows Store game. It bought me a gaming PC and taught me what shipping a product actually means.
C#, MonoGame -
2012
Kinect experimentations
A basic renderer that consumed Kinect depth data to decide where to put a virtual camera.
C#, XNA -
2011
AV8
Controlling a PC with a Kinect, built on the beta SDK with two fellow students and Professor Omiros Iatrellis. One of the first advanced Kinect applications anywhere, and it got the attention of the local academic community and press.
C#, Kinect SDK -
2011
Lucky ball-aki
A magic 8-ball game with a name that only works in Greek. A custom physics library and accelerometer input won it a university competition. The prize was a Windows Phone.
C#, XNA
Going low
2009 — Project Cocktail
Before any of this, I was a high school student with a Certificate of Proficiency in English and no obligation to do anything at all. So I took a job as a bartender in Zakynthos — partly to use the English in real situations, mostly because I have always believed hard work builds character. If you had a cold drink on that island around then, there is a decent chance I poured it. It is still the job I am most proud of.
