Oliver Fallows

ofallows@gmail.com | www.oliverfallows.com

Professional Summary

Software engineer with 7 years experience in the games industry. Specialising in optimisation, asset pipeline and toolchains, system architecture and memory analysis.

Employment

Principal Programmer

June 2009 - now

Crytek

• Technical lead of a small team on an unannounced next-gen project.
• Credited on 5 titles – Crysis 1 (Console), Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Ryse and Warface 360.
• Developed tool for deep analysis of memory behaviour, pivotal in understanding and optimising the Crysis games for shipping on console.
• Refactored memory management, including development of a space and time efficient small object allocator, and defragmenting allocator for GPU resources.
• Moved sound system to command driven worker thread.
• Ported terrain mesh generation to asynchronous jobs, pipelined with occlusion culler to minimise main thread coordination.
• Developed pipeline for automatic analysis of asset dependencies to optimise loading and streaming of open world.
• Optimised file streaming for decreased latency by improving request ordering, overlapping IO and processing, optimising file formats and reducing runtime work.
• Key player in resolving memory corruption and race condition bugs.
• Coordinated the integration of multiple features and optimisations into Warface 360, crucial to achieving the target framerate on that platform.

Tools Developer

December 2008 - June 2009

Eurocom

• Integrated 3rd party lighting solution, Beast, into existing pipeline and editor.
• Designed and implemented a job system for Beast to enable bakes to happen across multiple machines over the network – drastically reducing overall bake times.

Tools Developer

August 2007 - December 2008

Free Radical Design

• Developed and integrated into existing world editor a terrain plugin for real-time editing of heightmaps and blend maps.
• Developed lighting plugin that enabled artists to configure background lights, baked lightmaps in real-time (GPU shadow mapped and raytraced), batched geometry into light groups for efficient rendering and was visually identical to game.
• Implemented architecture for parallel processing of tasks in world editor.
• Developed data binding architecture to create UI for arbitrary data sources on-the-fly.

Web Developer

June 2004 - August 2007

SchoolsOnTheNet.com and Neon-Dreams.co.uk

• Designed and developed content management software to meet the unique requirements of each customer, utilising AJAX and dynamic pages to improve the user experience.
• Implemented an Object Relational Mapping layer to abstract the database.
• Produced, deployed and maintained bespoke websites for schools and businesses.
• Technologies include PHP, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Subversion and Linux.

Education

Computing and Software Development Skills