David Palacios
Senior Technical Artist & Programmer - Lead at Hevedy Interactive
Greater Santander Metropolitan Area Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Palacios is a Senior Technical Artist and Programmer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping game levels, shaders, tools and optimization systems across Unreal Engine 4, Source, ID Tech and open-source engines. He leads technical art and tool development—delivering illumination, material and crowd systems, custom shaders, and designer-friendly Qt/C# pipelines used in commercial and client projects. A self-taught toolsmith and indie founder, he has released multiple standalone image and code management utilities and game toolkits (e.g., Hevedy Instances, Hevedy Image, Purpleprint) developed without external help. David combines strong gameplay design sense with deep technical skill in C++, C# and engine internals, enabling both polished visuals and performant builds. Based in Colombia, he frequently contributes to open-source engine work and brings a rare blend of level composition artistry and low-level systems pragmatism to production teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Programmer, Programmer at IES Augusto González de Linares, Santander, SpainInformatic technician, Informatic technician at Decroly, Santander, Spain
Spanish, English
Github Skills (69)
occlusion10
3d10
cpp10
game-development10
godot10
game-engine10
imgui10
api10
open-source10
graphical-user-interface10
rendering9
graphic9
angelscript9
midi9
engine9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Hevedy/PurpleprintKit
Mar 2016 - Jun 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
Hevedy/Hevedy
Apr 2017 - Oct 2025
Contributions:120 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
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