Benjamin Porter
Lead UI Engineer at Sledgehammer Games
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Porter is a Lead UI Engineer in Melbourne with 15 years of experience building user-facing systems for AAA and indie games, currently shaping HUDs, menus, and tooling across Call of Duty at Sledgehammer Games. He holds a PhD in computer science and a history of academic research in procedural 3D geometry, bringing rigorous problem-solving and novel algorithm design to production UI challenges. As founder of indie studio Wizard Mode, he shipped commercial titles and built a custom cross-platform C++ engine, demonstrating full-stack game development from tech architecture to design and funding. He also started Pixel Dailies, a community of nearly 100k followers, showing a knack for growing creative ecosystems alongside technical leadership.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Best Thesis Award, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Best Thesis Award at Monash University
Github Skills (71)
puredata10
cpp10
sfml10
imgui10
api10
lpeg10
oculus-quest10
type-checking10
sprite10
graphical-user-interface10
language-server10
game-engine9
openxr9
opengl9
sdk9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eigenbom/notgdc2017
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
gamedevgamegame-development
eigenbom/utils
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
A collection of data structures and utilities (C++11)
Contributions:92 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
data-structuredata-structurescppcpp11
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