Leigh Swift
Chief Technology Officer at Your Fifth Quarter
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLeigh Swift is a Senior Programmer with 11 years in games and systems engineering, currently focused on patching and game distribution at Epic Games. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he brings deep Unreal Engine experience from leading PC projects at Pitbull Studio and a hands‑on history of graphics, physics and tools development from early work on The Wonderverse. His background spans embedded/VHDL test systems at BAE to solo programming on competition titles, showing a blend of low‑level engineering discipline and creative game problem solving. Notably, he has built everything from constrained-verlet vehicle physics and morph-target animation systems to morphable chat UI, evidencing a talent for turning novel gameplay ideas into robust technical implementations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
HNC Electrical/Electronic Engineering, HNC Electrical/Electronic Engineering at Solent UniversityNVQ 2 Electronics, NVQ 2 Electronics at Isle Of Wight CollegeBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (5)
unreal9
game-development6
vscode1
csharp1
dotnet1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LeighSwift/AdventOfCode
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
unrealengine47/UnrealEngine4
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:11 commits in 28 days
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