ShamylZakariya

Is a graphic designer and developer
living in Seattle, Wa

Surfacer

A 2d side-scrolling physics-based game which I never finished. It no longer even compiles, because it depends on pre-C++0x11 tr1 libraries. I plan on attacking it and getting it running again, because it's too neat to let succomb to bitrot.

Features

Destructible terrain, where cut-off geometry is dynamic, and part of gameplay
Soft-body monsters! Grubs! Jellies! Worms! Grippy tentacles! Gross stuff!
Fluids
Quaint fullscreen shader effects
SVG-based geometry representation of monsters, game items, and player, allowing me to design them in Illustrator

SGF / SRE

SimpleGameFramework & SimpleRenderingEngine: 3D Game framework written between 2007 and 2010. Written from ground-up ( as-in, I started with an empty project, and wrote it all myself) in C++ and some ObjectiveC, and with rendering in OpenGL/GLSL.

Features

Physics, using the OpenDynamicsEngine and Bullet, as pluggable modules
Shadow mapping for directional (using CSM), point and spot lights (using depth cubemaps), with efficient visibility culling of light volumes
Quirky materials framework
Voxel-based terrain, editable in real-time, with Lindstrom-Turk edge-collapse mesh optimization, uzing the CGAL library.
Threaded Python scripting for the physics system - mainly used to make autonomous robotics simulations that can query their environment and send commands to servos/motors/actuators/etc
Automatic environmental greebling details like grass, decals, etc using 3d perlin noise to keep distributions naturalistic

Squizit

Source code on Github

iOS implementation of classic dadaist Exquisite Corpse game.

Various Sciencey Illustrations

I know a few scientific researchers, and sometimes I do illustrations & animations for their papers.

Book Cover: “A Mile in Her Shoes”

APCO Worldwide

Website design for my employer, APCO Worldwide.

Vax Pack Hero

An educational game for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Features

Random level generation
Automatic monster spawning based on the capabilities of the player
Cute pixelated graphics

APCO Champion Brand

A very illustrative site, whimsical and fun. The build uses a dynamic tiled background (approx 130 tiles), panning across a large spatial map, loading tiles on-demand using a visibility-based priority queue. Building the site required me to write a tiling tool in C++, a simple google-maps-like tiling engine, and a smoothing vector path traversing system. And the site's fully responsive, to boot!

CNL Securities app (Android, iOS)

Mobile app developed for CNL Securities, providing full access to their content. I was responsible for design, UX and implementation.

Features

Appropriate UI for phones and tablets
Briefcase functionality for offline content access
Shopping-cart-like functionality for ordering print copies of articles

Available on Google Play & iTunes

Skills

Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch.app, Pen/Paper
C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Python, Java (for Android and server), Javascript (client and server), OpenGL/GLSL, HTML, CSS/SASS
Web design, interactive web client-side programming, UI/UX design, & some experience with print, because print is neat
Native application development for Mac OSX, iOS, & Android. Back in the day: some Win32, GTK, KDE and BeOS native app development.

Interests

Illustration, architectural rendering, industrial design
User interface design, prototyping & programming, user experience design
Real-time graphics programming
Basic AI (game entity control, behavioral systems, flocking, etc: not high level intelligence stuff which is completely beyond me)

Professional Experience

1995-1999:Bachelor's in art, printmaking (intaglio,lithography) & painting at the University of Virginia.
1997-1999:Graphic designer, UI designer, & UI programmer, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.Responsible for designing and building educational tools in Macromedia Flash & Director.
1996:3D Modeler, Texture Mapper, University of Virginia VR Lab under Randy PauschResponsible for modeling and texture mapping materials for VR simulation.
1999-2016:Art Director & Client-side/Interaction programmer, mobile application developer, APCO Worldwide.Designer and implementer of client side user experience for websites, mobile apps, and so on.
2013-2015:UX Designer, UI Designer, Full-Stack Developer for ConsultPro (startup) I was responsible for the UX design, UI design and implementation of an iPad app for Hair Salons. I was also responsible for designing and implementing the network sync prototcol that enabled all signed-in devices to see and work with up-to-date data.
2016-present:Software Engineer, Rapid Prototyping at Vulcan, Inc At Vulcan I'm responsible for building interesting things; currently I'm working in computer vision to do camera pose estimation for augmented reality.

Personal Work

1990-1999:Learning to program and getting hooked on graphics programming.Wrote a simple software 3D graphics rasterizer in C/C++, supporting texture mapping, depth buffer, and simple gouraud shading — this was a great exercise in learning fast integer math. Wrote several experimental user-interfaces in Java, to make various day to day tasks like file browsing and designing finite state machines more intuitive.
1999-2004:Wrote a primitive robotics simulation toolkit.I got very interested in behavioral artificial intelligence and decided to build a toolkit for hosting and testing autonomous agents. It was a fun sandbox! Plus, I got hooked on OpenGL.
2004-2010:Wrote several 3D game engines.Robotic simulation required visualization, and that spun into writing 3 different (and increasingly capable) 3D game "engines" with physics, scripting, and so on. They never came to anything really, but were a tremendous learning experience, making me a better programmer.
2010-2013:Development of side-scrolling action game "Surfacer".While riding my bike to work one day I had an epiphany about destructible verlet-integrated meshes for game level geometry.
It was a total dead end! But it led to a concept for a side-scrolling 2D game where the character must reshape the environment, making new dynamic shapes, to solve spacial puzzles. Plus, I got to write a 2d version of the marching cubes alrgorithm.
Update! As of 2017 Surfacer is back in development! I've written a completely new physics system for better performance and accuracy, and having a great time.
2013-present:Writing open source iOS and Android apps and libraries.