Ahmed Yosri

April 2024 – Present

Senior Unreal Engineer, Unannounced Project — YAGER

• Contributing to a new unannounced multiplayer shooter project, using Unreal Engine 5 and Lyra as the project’s base
• Set foundations and roadmap for AI, Progression, Spatial awareness and Spawning systems.
• Developed core AI systems like, spatial awareness with integration in Pathfinding and EQS, encounters
• Implemented other features like Weapons (shooting mechanics, high-speed projectiles), AI Gameplay and UI.
• Optimizing performance across server/client (gained around 17 FPS due to AI alone)
• Streamlined navigation mesh building process, by providing a single button click, verified and built the data
• Established AI guidelines (limits, how to set them up)
• Helped shared knowledge with designers around BTree features
• Planned/broke down entire EPICs, drafted TDDs/DACIs, maintained jira board and contributed findings to UDN (EPS)

Aug 2020 – July 2023

Software Engineer II, AI Systems — Frostbite, EA

• Shipped games: Battlefield 2042, Madden 21/22/23, College Football and supported Ironman prototyping.
• Refactored blackboard system, and as a direct result new variable addition and wiring was reduced from 5 days of manual-error-prone process to instant addition
• Developed Runtime and Pipeline in C++ and designed APIs that adheres game team’s performance and security requirements
• Developed Editor tools in C# and XAML (MVVM) and developed a features used daily by Frostbite and game teams
• Reduced engineering time by integrating Frostbite types system and Improved designers workflows by writing custom editors
• Cleaned up and polished our testing module, reached ~100% test coverage on new features, and helped QA to add their own tests
• Led brainstorming and technical solution assessment sessions with internal and external teams and contributed to TDDs
• Mentored and helped new joiners and junior engineers

Oct 2017 – Jan 2020

Senior Game Programmer — Gameloft

Modern Combat: Rebel Guns (C++, OpenGL ES 2, GLSL ES, Lua, XML)

• Re-engineered 75+ classes to implement objects pool to eliminate micro-freezes
• Reduced memory leaks from 100+ mb per level to 0 mb
• Developed various shaders like LUT, aiming and character highlighting
• Fixed several parts in our animations tool like clipping, flags and loops
• Collaborated closely with Producers, Artists, QA and data tracking team to implement different gameplay features & tracking
• Prototyped multiple demos using Unity3D

March ’14 – Oct ’17

Part-time Senior Unity3D developer — PentaValue

• Designed and fully implemented 9 Unity3D Projects (3/2D Apps/Games) and helped shipping another 2
• Developed a Kinect-v2 Avateering wrapper used in 5 projects and a Kinect Framework used in 4 projects
• Coached 2 junior developers, conducted code reviews, collaborated with iOS, Android and backend developers to deliver RoboApp
• Shipped games/products: Magic Mirror | RoboApp | Bastet ,(Map Editor) | 3D Survival game | 3D Air-Fighters | Soccer

March ’16 – Oct ’17

Freelance Unity3D developer — Forgotten Mines

• Designed and implemented invitations and rewards system (Full stack development using Azure), planetarium shaders, authentication.

Jul ’12 – Apr ’13 · Oct ’13 – Oct ’16

Indie developer

“Bain’s Redemption” (C++, DirectX 10)

• Developed Reinforcement Learning based AI that could adapt to different player style in less than 5 battles
• Developed Multi-tier Behavior trees, enhanced engine memory consumption during load by ~75%s
• “Project Knight” (C++, UE4) : Led programming in a 3 members team
• “The Rescuer –FPS Game –C++ –OpenGL –Individually

Jan ’13 – Aug ’13

Game & tools Developer — KNG

• Designed and developed “Spiders Attack | Gameplay”, DS Simulation course [Unity3D] and Android XML layout generation tool [C#]