Vatsalya Yadav

01Experience

1. Game Engineer @ Schell Games

   Mar 2026 — Oct 2026

   Unannounced Immersive Projection Experience · Pittsburgh, PA

   • Profiled CPU and GPU workloads with in-house performance tools to sustain a stable 60 FPS across multi-viewport nDisplay rendering.
   • Drove rendering pipeline decisions and integrated new features into Unreal's graphics pipeline.
   • Implemented automation tests for shipping builds to constantly monitor game performance in each level.
   • Managed GAS architecture to align the team's goals and reduce code redundancy in new gameplay features.
   • Developed custom editor tools that let designers tune gameplay without engineering support.
   • Co-led AngelScript integration into the in-house Unreal fork, enabling hot-reloadable gameplay scripting and eliminating C++ recompiles for most iterations.
   • Exposed engine and gameplay systems such as GAS to AngelScript through script bindings.
   • Unreal Engine 5
   • nDisplay
   • AngelScript
   • GAS
   • Rendering Pipeline
   • Profiling
   • Automation Testing
   • Editor Tools

2. Game Engineer @ Schell Games

   Dec 2025 — Mar 2026

   Superman Experience · WB Studios, Burbank, CA · Official site ↗

   Unreal UI and tools, video encoding techniques and scriptable pipelines for a large-format location-based experience.

   • Extended nDisplay tooling to support multiple rendering policies for each selected viewport, and built Unreal tools for multi-viewport rendering challenges.
   • Automated overnight renders with Jenkins across a multi-machine farm, generating terabytes of high-resolution frames.
   • Optimized a super-high-resolution video rendering pipeline supporting multiple codecs.
   • Ran output on state-of-the-art projectors via Hive Beeboxes on client hardware.
   • Unreal Engine 5
   • nDisplay
   • Jenkins
   • Video Encoding
   • Render Farm
   • Unreal Tools

3. Graphics Programmer @ RedPill XR

   Mar 2025 — Jun 2025

   Unannounced XR/VR tech research · Los Angeles, CA

   XR/VR, Unreal and networking stack for a seamless Ready Player One-style experience.

   • Worked across multiple rendering APIs to achieve low-latency video transfer from a render farm.
   • Optimized client-side shaders to display content rendered on a dedicated server.
   • XR / VR
   • Unreal
   • Shaders
   • Networking

4. Junior Programmer @ GodSpeed Games

   Jul 2019 — Nov 2020

   Krystopia · Shakes on a Plane · The Innsmouth Case · Pune, India

   Optimized and ported games to Nintendo Switch using Unity3D and C#.

   • Optimized shaders based on metrics from Nintendo's SDK and Unity profiling tools.
   • Fixed bugs and memory issues using Switch SDK crash dumps and profiler data.
   • Mapped input to Joy-Cons, Pro Controllers and touch screen from mouse & keyboard.
   • Unity3D
   • C#
   • Nintendo Switch
   • Profiling

02Projects

Shipped games & VR

Rendering & engine

03Skills

04Education

05Recommendations