Adam Gdovin
Profile
  • Enthusiastic programmer with over two years of experience in creating digital games
  • Efficiency-driven, with a deep understanding of the different aspects of game development
  • Avid gamer and tech enthusiast with a flair for problem solving 
Employment History
Game client developer at Chopsticks in the Apps, Brno
February 2017  –  Present
A small startup creating web-based and mobile, casino versions of popular games such as Monopoly or Flappy Bird. I was employed as a head programmer and was in charge of the game client development on numerous projects. The job required me, due to the small scale of the on-site team, to work with many different technologies from variety of fields ranging from 2D/3D asset creation to server setup and administration.

Responsibilities:
  • Helping coordinate and train new team members
  • Working independently or in a small team of 2-3 programmers on multiple projects simultaneously
  • Covering the entire client development process and providing post-deployment support 
  • Collaborating with external artists and back-end developers to reach a common goal
  • Dissecting, comprehending and re-applying the code of the original games (when provided) 
  • Integrating company's games into multiple casino platforms, including standalone cabinet slot machine with monetary mechanisms, and directly communicating with the second party
  • Ensuring consistency across multiple platforms and OSs
Freelancer
2008  –  Present
Worked on various short-time projects to broaden my experience. Most notable projects include:
  • Game servers maintenance and server mod creation (Source Engine)
  • Building concept and 3D visualization of football field facilities in France
  • Blender plugin for import and export of Minecraft models and animations
  • Minecraft entity creation (3D model correction/animation)
  • Twitch (StreamLabs) chat bot for song requests and accompanying website with complete Node.js/SQL back-end
Education
Bachelor of Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Masaryk university, Brno
2014  –  2018
Various group projects
  • OpenGL programming
  • Game development in Unity
  • VR driving scene as part of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab
Information and Network Technology, Secondary education, Prešov
2010  –  2014
  • Introduction into programming with C and OOP (Java)
  • Heavy focus on networking and system administration
Courses
CCNA Routing and Switching, Cisco
2010  –  2014
Details
Orlí, Brno, 60200, Czech Republic
Age / Place of birth
23
Prešov
Nationality
Slovak or Slovakian
Links
Personal website / Portfolio
adam.gdov.in
Skills
JavaScript
Java
C#
HTML5
Python
Unity
Playcanvas
Construct 2
OpenGL/WebGL
LAMP/MEAN
Node.js
npm
Blender
Hobbies
Technology, Hardware, Tinkering, Reading, Computer/Board games, Puzzle games/problem solving
Languages
English
Slovak
Russian