Welcome! My name is Vladyslav Ieliashevskyi and I'm from 🇺🇦

I'm a Game Designer, specialized in game AI, with large development background and deep interest in general AI and ML technics. Here is a brief about me:

• Strong experience in full development cycle from feature request to integration and deployment (Technical Lead Role for mobile Blackberry SDK)
• Strong experience in agile methodologies (Took role of a Scrum Master for three teams while performing main duties as a Game Designer at ShadowMasters Games)
• Collaboration with big and decentralized teams
• Strong knowledge of game development processes and collaboration with various teams (Development, QA, Design, Art)
• Strong prototyping skills using Lua, Unity or any other familiar tool
• Complete ownership over dedicated game features:
  • Idea inception and in-depth research
  • Documentation support through feature lifecycle
  • Feature/Concept presentation to the team
  • Code reviewes upon implementation and after integration
  • Final tuning and tweaking inside game editor
  • Iterative approach based on feedback and gathered analytics

👯 At the moment I’m looking for a job in gaming industry, preferably as a game AI designer

I'm an avid gamer but genres that are of my main interest include RTS, MOBA, FPS, TPS and Action Adventure Games. I love working on hardcore games with strong emphasis on mechanics.

I'm also able to provide consultation on AI in your game on a freelance basis. Available for public speaking on thematic conferences.

Feel free to contact me!

👇 2021 Goal List

• 📝 Start writing technical articles focused on game AI
• 🎲 Create portfolio of a prototypes on GitHub
• 🚧 Reanimate old maze runner written in C++. GitHub Source and Itch.io Release
• 🤖 Implement some ML models to play simple games
• 🏫 Poke around Unreal Engine
• 👀 Transform one of my stories into Interactive Fiction using one of existing tools and publish it online

📣 Public Speaker

I had a pleasure to be a public speaker on few gamedev events and webinars. Topics I've covered during my speeches:

• "Using iBeacons in Game Development"
• "Basics of Game Design and how the Design team works with QA"
• "Game Design: Through the Looking Glass"
• "AI in Games. From A to Z."
• "NFT Realm. Non-Fungible Tokens - Adoption and Application"

📺 Selected YouTube Videos

Webinar: AI in Games. From A to Z. (Ukrainian language)

🔧 Tools and Technology Stack

• C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, C#, LUA, Python
• Unity, GitHub, Plastic SCM, Jupyther Notebook, articy:draft 3, Visual Studio, Visual Code

🙌 Personal Achievements

• One of my short horror stories was published in almanac in 2016

☎️ Contacts

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