Senior C++ Developer

Employment

• Lead Programmer

  Ubisoft - 5 years 11 months

  Ubisoft is one of the world’s largest AAA gaming studios, known for global franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Ghost Recon, Far Cry, and The Division. The Odesa studio focuses on co-development for flagship cross-platform titles and engine components, including contributions to Ubisoft’s proprietary Anvil engine.

  • Led a cross-functional programming team (5–9 engineers) responsible for core systems on the Anvil game engine powering AAA titles including Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
  • Designed, implemented, and optimized subsystems for UI, input handling, accessibility, and options frameworks, ensuring stable cross-platform behavior across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
  • Coordinated with lead studios and multiple co-development teams to scope features, sequence technical priorities, and ensure alignment with global production pipelines.
  • Conducted deep technical investigations to define product needs, propose architectural improvements, and unblock cross-team engineering dependencies.
  • Reviewed code, onboarded new engineers, and mentored junior, mid-level, and senior developers to improve code quality, performance, and maintainability.
  • Managed people operations including performance evaluations, growth plans, workload balancing, and day-to-day team coordination.
  • Drove workflow improvements within the engine team, refining development processes and communication between engineering, design, and production.
  • Contributed hands-on C++ development for engine and game systems while balancing technical leadership and delivery responsibilities.

  Technologies:

  • Technologies:
  • C++
  • Oracle
  • Agile
  • PL/SQL
  • Team Leading

• Programmer

  Ubisoft - 10 months

  Worked on Ubisoft Odesa’s co-development team for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, contributing to gameplay systems, UI, and PC-specific features in collaboration with distributed international teams.

  • Developed gameplay and engine features in C++ as part of the PC adaptation effort for Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.
  • Implemented UI components, settings, and options menus, ensuring correct rendering and behavior across PC hardware configurations.
  • Contributed to performance profiling and optimization of key systems interacting with UI frameworks.
  • Acted as a sub-lead for UI features, supporting planning, coordination, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Onboarded new developers by creating documentation, guiding setup, and explaining domain-specific architecture.

  Technologies:

  • Technologies:
  • UI
  • C++
  • Agile

• Programmer

  ISD - 12 years 11 months

  ISD develops large-scale clinical information systems and diagnostic platforms used by major hospitals and medical institutions across North America.

  • Designed, extended, and maintained a large-scale medical software suite used by major healthcare providers, ensuring reliability and stability in production environments.
  • Led modernization and refactoring of a large legacy C/C++ codebase, improving stability, readability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Developed new modules for diagnostic workflows, data capture, and patient management.
  • Designed and optimized complex Oracle SQL and PL/SQL queries for high-performance data operations on large medical datasets.
  • Troubleshot production issues directly with client teams, identified root causes, and delivered long-term fixes.
  • Enhanced data processing pipelines and contributed to backend improvements for large clinical systems.

  Technologies:

  • Technologies:
  • C
  • C++
  • Oracle
  • Linux
  • Unix
  • PL/SQL

• Machine Learning Researcher

  University of Genoa - 3 months

  A leading Italian research university with active programs in computer science, machine learning, robotics, and cognitive systems.

  • Conducted research on Support Vector Machines with integer factors for downstream use in FPGA circuits.
  • Developed C++ software to build and train SVM models optimized for hardware-level implementation.
  • Performed experiments on statistical classification of biological data and evaluated algorithmic accuracy.
  • Worked on bridging ML theory with practical computational constraints for embedded and hardware-accelerated systems.

  Technologies:

  • Technologies:
  • C++
  • SVM
  • Machine Learning