SAKIB R SAIKIA

Work Experience

• War Drum Studios—Gainesville, FL
  Engine Programmer : Jan 2009 – present
  
  • Worked on various aspects of an in-house multi-platform rendering engine developed for a soon to be released RTS title for Xbox 360 and PS3
  • Worked on PSSM shadows, deferred shading, post-process effects, particle systems, billboard trees, view frustum culling, planar reflection maps, material system, terrain blending, point lights, distance fog, cloud cover, video playback using LibSail, Rsx memory manager
  • Developed the game framework for a Chess game demo, and was also involved in various GPU-side performance optimizations, mainly on the PS3

• Ignition Entertainment—Gainesville, FL
  Graphics and Systems Engineer (Intern) : May 2008 – Aug 2008
  
  • Implemented skeletal mesh motion blur on Unreal Engine 3 for a AAA First Person Shooter title
  • Expedited the art pipeline by developing custom 3DS Max exporter tools using Max Script

• Intel—Chandler, AZ
  Intern: May 2007 – Dec 2007
  
  • Worked on the OpenGL visualization of a prototype 10'UI for Intel's Digital Home Group
  • Ported MPEG-7 code to GPU and Cell BE platforms using RapidMind library

• IBM—Gurgaon, India
  Software Engineer: Aug 2005 – June 2006
  
  • Worked as an ETL Developer and Tester for a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence project

Education

• University of Florida—Gainesville, FL
  MS (Computer Engineering), Aug 2006–Dec 2008
  
  • GPA 3.87

• Malaviya National Institute of Technology—Jaipur, India
  Bachelor of Technology (Computer Engineering), 2001–2005
  

Projects

Please see the Projects page

Skills

• Programming: C/C++, shader programming in HLSL, GLSL
• API/Libraries: DirectX 9.0, OpenGL, LibGcm, LibSail, Granny 3D
• Tools/IDE: PIX, GPAD, Gcm HUD, XB Watson, Visual Studio, Tortoise SVN
• Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PS3