Jonathan Steyfkens

Date Of Birth:	25/09/1996
Nationality:	Belgian
Languages:	Belgian (Mother tongue) English (fluent) French (basic comprehension)

Sep 2017 - Now	Electric square ( a Gobo studio) Developing render technologies, tools for artists, Unreal engine feature implementation and bug fixing. Next to that I also work a lot on developing profiling tooling for the automation system used internally. Skills I learned: Unreal engine Source, Build pipeline, rendering debugging, opimization techniques, tooling, ...	Programmer
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017	Internship at Studio Gobo, Brighton Maintaining and developing an unannounced project. Working on core technologies while exploring a range of technologies such as: unreal engine, visual studio, git, perforce and teamcity	Software Engineer
Summer 2016	Essec-BNS Developing and maintaining internal business software. SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS	Web Developer

2014 - 2017	Bachelor Digital Arts and Entertainment, Howest Program aimed to teach students about technical development for games.
aug 2016 - dec 2016	Erasmus at Abertay University, Scotland, Dundee Courses focused on the design of games but also technical aspects such as network systems.
2008-2014	Sint-Jozefsinstituut Bokrijk General Math and Science focused course

Programming Languages:	C++, C#, Python, Javascript, lua
Game Engines:	Unreal 4 and Unity3D
Other:	Sockets programming, Perforce,Git, bash, vimL, Visual Studio, premake5
Non-technical:	Teamplayer, creative and critical thinking

2016	Just The Two of Us - Brains Eden, Cambridge UK (https://player.vimeo.com/video/172655280) Game Jam at the Anglia Ruskin university. "One of best 7 unity games" ~ Unity rep
2016	Dream Defense - VR Gamejam with Google Cardboard (www.blog.jonathansty.github.io/index.php/2016/10/08/dream-defense-vr-gamejam/) A gamejam to explore the limitations of google cardboard VR. Trapped inside a dream as a giant. You are tasked to defend the kings castle from vile creatures trying to invade your kingdom. This jam we focussed mainly on getting interesting controls using only 1 button and looking. I've implemented the moving between towers worked on popup selection screen, special powerups, tower upgrading mechanisms, displaying tower ranges and so on.

2016

Just The Two of Us - Brains Eden, Cambridge UK (https://player.vimeo.com/video/172655280)
Game Jam at the Anglia Ruskin university. "One of best 7 unity games" ~ Unity rep

2016

Dream Defense - VR Gamejam with Google Cardboard (www.blog.jonathansty.github.io/index.php/2016/10/08/dream-defense-vr-gamejam/)
A gamejam to explore the limitations of google cardboard VR. Trapped inside a dream as a giant. You are tasked to defend the kings castle from vile creatures trying to invade your kingdom.
This jam we focussed mainly on getting interesting controls using only 1 button and looking. I've implemented the moving between towers worked on popup selection screen, special powerups, tower upgrading mechanisms, displaying tower ranges and so on.