Matthew Kosarek

🖥️ Software Developer 🔗 matthewkosarek.xyz github.com/mattkae 📧 mkosare1@gmail.com 🇺🇸 United States Citizen

Experience

Software Team Lead Vention

July 2020 to Present Montreal, QC

Led a team in the development of industrial software applications including cobot palletizers, cartesian palletizers, and CNC machines
Architected and developed the core application-level framework for all future client projects
Developed and deployed a number of client projects to factory floors
Interfaced with other teams on a daily basis to align on business goals and meet deadlines
Planned, scoped, and organized long-term projects and daily tasks via Asana and Github Projects
Individually contributed across many aspects of the codebase, from the firmware to the application layer

Software Engineer I Big Huge Games

January 2018 to June 2020 Timonium, MD

Developed and maintained the data pipeline - from data entry, to data validation, to data publishing - for Arcane Showdown
Designed, built, and maintained a live operations scheduling and publishing web application for DomiNations
Implemented a localization system for Arcane Showdown which allowed the game to be released in different languages
Implemented game features on all parts of the stack, including tools, Unity client, and game servers

Teaching Assistant for Intro to Video Game Design Johns Hopkins University

September 2017 to December 2017 Baltimore, MD

Assisted beginner programmers in the development of 2D game engines using the SDL2 library

Software Engineering Intern Big Huge Games

May 2017 to August 2017 Timonium, MD

Developed a tool using C# and GTK to improve the workflow of the quality assurance team for DomiNations
Wrote a comprehensive user manual that explains how the tool functions for both technical and non-technical users

Software Engineering Intern Sparkypants Studios

May 2016 to August 2016 Baltimore, MD

Education

BSc Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

September 2014 to December 2017

3.53 GPA (Magna Cum Laude)
Relevant Coursework: Computer Graphics, Object Oriented Software Engineering, Linear Algebra, Video Game Engines and Design, Operating Systems, Data Structures, Introduction to Renewable Energy Engineering

My self-hosted personal website where I do small projects in WebAssembly and OpenGL: matthewkosarek.xyz
A game engine that I built from scrach in C++ and OpenGL: github.com/mattkae/MatteEngine
My self-installing emacs configuration: git.matthewkosarek.xyz/emacs_config/
Unfinished website about realtime physics in video games: physicsforgames.com/