Senior C++ and Unreal Engine systems engineer. Over five years across C++17, Unreal Engine 5 and AWS, currently lead developer on SpaceForm's production digital twin platform, where I own the system architecture, the data pipelines and the internal tooling.
A production real-time digital twin platform combining Unreal Engine 5, modern C++17, AWS, high-throughput data ingestion, browser-based 3D visualisation, internal tooling and secure local AI workflows. The platform ingests, transforms and presents large volumes of external data inside interactive 3D scenes that clients use directly.
PC racing and action game. Built the state-driven front-end, a reusable UI framework and a JSON-driven messaging system that let live-service content reach players without hardcoding every path. Steam auth, friends and profiles.
Networked 1v1 third-person fighter. Replicated actors and components, RPCs, authority checks, prediction and smoothing, physics replication, directional hit reactions and a dynamic camera. I built the PS5 dev-kit builds and ran the network testing, focused on removing host advantage and desyncs.
Unreal horror game. Owned gameplay, AI, interaction, physics, camera and audio: a Polaroid camera with picture-quality scoring, procedural pickup animations, bicycle physics, UFO behaviour, quests, inventory, and audio zones driven by doors, windows and world state.
A browser survival action game with pixel-art Brainrot characters, released in October 2026 on Playgama, CrazyGames and GamePix. Auto-firing weapons, XP, chests, bosses, a timed Backrooms escape and permanent upgrades between runs. Written in TypeScript on HTML5 Canvas with a custom 2D engine, bundled by esbuild, with touch and desktop controls and the Playgama Bridge SDK for saves and ads. A new version is in development.
Authoritative host, client-side prediction, snapping and interpolation correction, custom socket wrappers and a full packet flow from handshake to disconnect. I tested it across remote machines and under simulated latency and packet loss using Clumsy.
A population of feed-forward-network birds trained by a genetic algorithm: fitness selection, crossover, mutation, and a second window visualising the selected bird's network at runtime. A 100-bird run produced a first-generation bird scoring over 18,000.
Tessellated heightmap terrain with distance LOD, height and slope material blending, normal and displacement mapping, animated water, directional, point and spot lighting, shadow mapping and a multi-pass bloom pipeline, all tunable at runtime with debug views.
Completed Unreal Engine team project. Gameplay implementation, AI-driven behaviour and audio presentation delivered through to release with a cross-discipline team.
Bames Jond, a top-down PS Vita action prototype. A C++ boids flocking simulation. Deja Dune, an Epic MegaJam 2025 time-rewind dune surfer built from scratch in Blueprints with original audio.
Three remote C++ and Unreal roles since 2022.
Abertay University, Dundee. Graphics, networking, AI and console framework work that became the prototypes above.
Independent music production business. I have produced, mixed, mastered and released over 250 instrumentals, passed 1,000,000 Spotify streams, and run the branding, client relationships and distribution myself. On the engineering side I build automated ComfyUI workflows that render a visualiser for each release, and a pipeline that uploads every beat with its artwork and metadata to more than 20 platforms. ElevenLabs, Claude and ChatGPT run inside these workflows. lankybeats.com
I run The Reality Frameworks, a channel on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok that makes complex ideas about the mind simple, with ElevenLabs, Claude and ChatGPT in its production workflow. I study at the Self Integration School, a programme in developmental psychology, consciousness studies and transpersonal metaphysics. I follow games and graphics industry news and new AI tooling closely, play five-a-side football every week, and spend plenty of time with friends and family.
Based in Glasgow. Happy to talk about AI, Unreal, C++ systems, real-time visualisation, digital twins or networked gameplay or anything else which may fit my profile.