Jeffrey Gichuki
Nairobi
Summary
An experienced Game Programmer with a deep love for narrative driven Games, their Development and Design. With an appreciation for clean code practices, making code as simple as possible and experience in Full Stack Development, I'm ready and equipped to jump across Game Development softwares. The simpler the code the better.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Team Lead and Senior Unity Developer
Mekan Games Ltd
08.2022 - Current
- Consistently achieved CPI's of under 0.87$ across multiple projects after promotion
- Ideated, Iterated, Designed and Developed multiple games with over 28% retention on projects that went into Retention Phase of testing.
- Ideated, Designed, Developed, Iterated, Collaborated, Prototyped, Polished and Optimised over 84 in-house concepts across two teams, leveraging iterative processes to achieve diverse levels of success
- Involved heavily in teaching clean code practices and file organisation structures utilised within the company.
Founder
Virdane Labs Ltd
04.2020 - Current
- Ideated, Designed and Developed Rachel's Grasp, as part of Research Project to determine whether Games can be used to teach players methods of understanding and better dealing with Anxiety Disorders through implementation of therapy techniques mixed with Narrative Design and Game Development
- Prototyping and Developing Game Mechanics and tools for both 2D and 3D game platforms.
Senior Game Developer
Kunta Content
06.2022 - 02.2023
- Developed, Prototyped and Iterated on unreleased project.
Unity Developer
Mekan Games Ltd
04.2021 - 08.2022
- Part of the core team that Ideated, Designed, Developed, Iterated and Maintained The President mobile game that achieved over 20 Million combined Downloads globally across Android and iOS Devices
- Achieved stable CPI's of under 0.35$ on iOS and 0.43$ on Android over 6 months of iteration
- Achieved consistent Retention numbers of above 38% on The President across platforms.
Unity Developer Intern
Mekan Games Ltd
04.2021 - 08.2022
- Developed 2 projects with CTR's of 2.5% on the first and 3.8% on the second project.
Game Development Advisor
Kunta Content
04.2022 - 05.2022
- Advised and overlooked over the design and development of an unreleased mobile game.
Student Ambassador
Unity Technologies
01.2019 - 05.2021
- Organised and Executed workshops to expose and educate University Students on how to use Unity at Strathmore University.
Video Game Developer Intern
Jiwe Studios
02.2021 - 04.2021
- Fullfilled roles in the Wrtiting, Design, Development, Testing and Publishing departments of the company on inhouse projects.
Developer Intern
Tezza Business Solutions Ltd
01.2020 - 03.2020
- Worked closely with both Developers and QA Analysts in the development and testing of Web Services on a production line
- Documenting of API's using OpenApi3 Specifications in YAML
- Worked with the QA Analysts to facilitate tests on the API's created by the Development team.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Informatics and Computer Science
Strathmore University
Nairobi, Nairobi Province, Kenya09.2021
Skills
Expert in:
- C#, Unity , Team Collaboration, Creativity, Modular Design Principles, Logical and Analytical thinking, Communication
Intermediate in:
- C , Unreal Engine, HTML5, PhP, Wordpress, MySQL, Git, Github, NPM, Java, Python
Basic in:
- GDSCript, Godot, Laravel, Bootstrap, GitLab, Krita, Inkscape
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 8 in the development of The Secret Service, Wrestling Run, Weld Masters, Millionaire Life, Box in a Box and several other projects.
- Supervised team of 2 staff members.
- Achieved an average CPI of 1.30$ across 26 projects with 12 of those projects going into the Retention stage of project development.
- Of the 12 Projects that went into Retention Testing their average Retention was 27.42% across the projects.
Certification
- Crazyhubs Graduate - the Hyper-Casual Gaming Accelerator, CrazyLabs - Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Languages
English
Native language
Swahili
Proficient
C2
Japanese
Elementary
A2
Awards
- Games Industry Africa Awards Game of the Year 2022 - The President(Mekan Games Ltd.)
- Games Industry Africa Awards Debut of the Year 2022 - The President. (Mekan Games Ltd.)
- Games Industry Africa Awards Most Impactful Video game 2022 - The President.(Mekan Games Ltd.)
Timeline
Team Lead and Senior Unity Developer
Mekan Games Ltd
08.2022 - Current
Senior Game Developer
Kunta Content
06.2022 - 02.2023
Game Development Advisor
Kunta Content
04.2022 - 05.2022
Unity Developer
Mekan Games Ltd
04.2021 - 08.2022
Unity Developer Intern
Mekan Games Ltd
04.2021 - 08.2022
Video Game Developer Intern
Jiwe Studios
02.2021 - 04.2021
Founder
Virdane Labs Ltd
04.2020 - Current
Developer Intern
Tezza Business Solutions Ltd
01.2020 - 03.2020
Student Ambassador
Unity Technologies
01.2019 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Informatics and Computer Science
Strathmore University
- Crazyhubs Graduate - the Hyper-Casual Gaming Accelerator, CrazyLabs - Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
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