SHIH-TSUI ARIEL KUO
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Shih-Tsui Kuo (Ariel)

Technical Artist/Software Engineer

Technical Artist in High Moon Studios under Activision Blizzard, 2020-2021
Software Engineer in AWS Gamelift and ​Amazon Game Studios, 2016-2020

M.S. of Entertainment Technology in Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, 2014-2016

RESUME

Experience


Technical Artist, High Moon Studios - Activision Blizzard, 2020-2021
Ship AAA title Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Software Development Engineer, Amazon, 2018  - 2020

Amazon Game Studios -- built game distribution application and back end services.

Software Development Engineer, Amazon, 2016 - 2018
Amazon Web Service, GameLift -- built cloud services for game developers.

Teaching Assistant in Building Virtual World, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015

Supported 3D game assets creation to integration, including modeling and animating art asset in Maya then use it in Unity.

Software Development Engineer, Intern, Amazon, 2015
Designed and Implemented a system that allows a fleet of host to share the job of auditing  Amazon Web Service load balancing instances.
The backend of the tool is written in JRuby, and the front end is written in Ruby on Rails and jQuery.


Teaching Assistant in Algorithm, National Chiao Tung University, 2012
Assisted undergraduate Algorithm course in computer science department.



Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science (MS), Entertainment Technology
2014 – 2016

National Chiao Tung University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
2008 – 2012
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Master of Science (MS), Computer Science
2012 - 2014



Skills

Programming Languages & Skills:
C/C++, Python, Java, HLSL, Javascript, Assembly, Linux socket programming

Software & Tools:
Autodesk Maya, Unity 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Houdini

Honor

  • Judge/Mentor of Twitch Extension Hackathon in Yale University (2019)
  • Amazon Intern Hackathon First Prize (2015)
  • Google Anita Borg Scholarship, Taiwan (2014)
  • Amazon Intern Hackathon First Prize
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