Matt Knowles

Veteran Game Engineer, Architect, Shipped AAA titles, VR, AR and Mobile Experience

Role
Principal Engineer at Snke
Location
Wheaton, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Matt Knowles

Currently a Lead Senior Software Engineer at Level Ex.Titles Released- Wrestlemania XXI (XBox)- Fight Night Round 3 (PS2, Xbox, X360)- Def Jam: Icon (X360, PS3)- Tony Hawk: Ride (X360, PS3)- Tony Hawk: Shred (X360, PS3)- In Time - The Game (IOS, Android Unreleased)- Tony Hawk HD (X360 Arcade, PSN Network)- Umigo AR Math App ( IOS )- WholeBrain ABC Puzzle ( IOS / Android )Specialties- Unity Development - Tools - DevOps / Pipeline - Application Architecture - VR work with Steam VR, Vive, VRTKLanguages- Expert level C#- Advanced C++ Experienced with but not primary languages- Python - Javascript / HTML / CSS - SQL - Lua - HLSL / GLSL - JavaGame Engines - Unity (3 to Latest)- Unreal 3 - custom built in-house engines. Management - Ability to drive and manage studio wide features / solutions / teams / technical management- Have managed teams sized from 3 (one department) to 25 engineers (full studio). Systems - Cameras - Input gesture systems (Tony Hawk Board)- Gameplay/AI - Replays - Audio - Commentary - Cinematics/cutscenes - Many development tools - Particle systems - Visibility culling - Automated TestingTeaching - Technical Teaching, at college and corporate level - Developed course ware for Sun Microsystems Training - Developed 2 year C++/ Game Development program at Flashpoint - 3 month Javascript/HTML5/CSS/JQuery class section.Cloud Services Azure - App Services, Blob Storage, DevOps / Pipelines, Insights AWS - Implemented a wide variety of services / solutions using AWS tech stackWeb/Backend ASP.NET, SQL Server, Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Joomla, Wordpress, WAMP, PayPal API\'s, Community Builder. WebRTC, NodeJS, Typescript

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer

    Snke

    Jan 2026 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

  • Full Sail University

    Associates, Game development

    2001 — 2002

Skills

  • Character Animation
  • Xbox 360
  • C#
  • Oop
  • Autodesk Motionbuilder
  • Game Design
  • Game Programming
  • Ios
  • 3d Studio Max
  • Unreal Editor
  • Gameplay
  • Ps3
  • Unreal Engine 3
  • Hlsl
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Casual Games
  • Computer Games
  • Cross-Platform Development
  • Opengl
  • Gameplay Programming
  • Social Games
  • Unity3d
  • Video Games
  • Mudbox
  • Xbox
  • Game Engines
  • Android
  • Console
  • Game Mechanics
  • Perforce
  • Javascript
  • Actionscript
  • Rigging
  • Uv Mapping
  • Game Development
  • 3d
  • Scripting
  • Animation
  • 3d Modeling
  • Programming

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