Resume

Mememage

Open source, mememage.art

Creator-owned provenance for generated images.

• Two-pixel bar in the image's own pixels, pointing to a record the creator keeps
• Survives recompression, re-uploads and screenshots
• PyPI and npm, with a Chrome extension and ComfyUI support
• Self-hostable mint server and zero-dependency decoder
• Record signing with key rotation and revocation; encrypted data fields
• Python and JavaScript packages kept in sync by shared tests

Phantom

Personal project, in development

Wireframe dogfight game for the Waveshare ESP32-S3 with a 480×480 AMOLED touch screen.

• Ships, arena, sky, canopy and audio generated at runtime; no texture samples
• Drawn direct to the display over QSPI, 60 fps in combat
• Opponents flown by a trained network and hand-written tactics
• C++ game shared by the PC build and the firmware
• Score Studio: soundtrack editor checked against the board's synthesizer and speaker

Local agent platform

Personal project

Local AI agent on a 16 GB M4 Mac mini.

• Qwen3.5-9B with vision on MLX; FLUX and Qwen-Image for art
• No cloud model in the conversation loop
• Custom runtime and native SwiftUI macOS app
• Model-based request routing, tested by an evaluation harness through the real runtime
• SQLite knowledge graph: learns facts from conversations, asks about uncertain ones, user-correctable
• Multi-user Discord chat with per-person privacy rules, enforced in code and red-teamed

Random Thoughts

Personal project

Real-time simulation of a thousand people who live, form relationships, age and die.

• LLM writes their inner thoughts into a shared feed
• Layered prompts: global segments, per-type templates, context from each person's state
• LLM queue across API keys and providers, with rate limiting and a daily budget cap

Meta Reality Labs

Remote

Creative Technologist, Aug 2025–Jul 2026

• Agent adoption
  • Led agentic AI adoption for the art team
  • Workshop on agent architecture and LLMs for ambiguous tasks
  • Technical point of contact for agent work
• Infrastructure
  • Internal agent framework for a non-engineering team, on short-lived instances
  • Adopted by 5 to 10 people across the art team and a partner research team
• Evaluation. Generative model output for 3D assets and images, under the GenAI organization.
• Media. Presentation videos, images and decks made with Meta's internal generative AI tools.

Technical Artist, May 2024–Aug 2025

• Avatar lighting. Runtime lighting for Codec Avatars' Gaussian splats: Unity's lighting model emulated in a compute shader, shading from scene lights and surface normals.
• Meta Motivo in XR
  • Physics-based ragdoll web demo ported to XR
  • Codec Avatars integrated, new control modes added
  • Later used by Meta's robotics research
• Prototypes. Proof-of-experience prototypes with the XR People Experience team: VFX look development, XR implementation, wearables demos, Codebook animation retargeting.
• AI tooling. Advised the art team on AI tools and generative AI in production pipelines.

Unity Technologies

Bellevue, WA

• Staff Technical Artist, Emerging Technologies, Oct 2023–Apr 2024
• Senior Technical Artist and Technical Art Director, Jan 2022–Oct 2023
• Senior 3D Generalist and Technical Lead, Internal Productions, Sep 2020–Dec 2021

• R&D. Experimental editor features with Emerging Technologies: proofs of concept, feature planning, documentation, validation.
• Clients
  • Artist tooling, content pipeline and workflow recommendations for clients worldwide
  • Engine and editor bug fixes
  • Artist engagement plans with tracked outcomes
• Productions. Technical lead on a sample game from concept to execution, with internal pipeline tools.

Selected projects

• Prehistoric Planet Immersive, Apple Vision Pro
  • Technical art director
  • Technical-art roadmap, tools, discipline practices, task management, external team support
• Orb, SIGGRAPH 2023
  • Senior technical artist
  • Procedural head animation for a talking AI character
• Fantasy Kingdom, Unite 2023
  • Senior technical artist
  • NPC modeling and texturing, VFX for NPC interactions, character customization workflow
• Wonder Woman title, 2022. Title sequence demo: VFX Graph, Shader Graph, Timeline, HDRP Lit materials.
• Kerbal Space Program 2. Performance optimization.
• Gigaya. Unity sample game: technical lead.
• Arkheron. Tools development and workflow optimization.
• Unity Lighthouse. Windows companion app automating lightmap baking for Unity's internal games team.
• Editor tools. Material Browser, Quick Launch, Editor Snapshot.

Bungie

Bellevue, WA

• 3D Generalist (Spec Ops)
• VFX Artist
• Technical Designer

• Set pieces. Across the Destiny franchise, placeholder to final: Maya simulation, shader effects, scripting, rigging, runtime animation.
• Raids. Encounters and mechanics co-designed with game designers: King's Fall, Last Wish, Scourge of the Past, Garden of Salvation.
• Tools. Designer-friendly toolkits on in-house tools for rapid prototyping.
• Shipped
  • Destiny: base game through Rise of Iron
  • Destiny 2: base game through Shadowkeep; consultant on Curse of Osiris
  • Credited on eight Destiny releases, 2014–2025 (MobyGames)

Sucker Punch Productions

Bellevue, WA

• 3D Environment Artist
• 3D Generalist

• inFAMOUS: Second Son, PS4
  • Environment, vehicle and prop fidelity on next-generation hardware
  • Gameplay and shader prototypes
  • Vehicle pipeline: rigging, modeling, texturing
• inFAMOUS 2 and Festival of Blood, PS3
  • Gameplay, cinematic and user-generated-content assets
  • Rigging and scripting support for UGC
  • Environments for motion-capture cutscenes

Requiem

Personal project, game director

Twin-stick shooter and new IP, built solo in Unreal 4 with Blueprints.

• Planning, art, design, engineering
• Everything in the trailer made from scratch, including VFX, shaders and animation
• Progression systems and Steam leaderboards
• Shipped to a closed beta on Steam

Bungie, through Xversity

3D artist, CSG. Kirkland, WA

• Halo: Reach multiplayer medals
• Cinematic and in-game assets
• 3D art bug fixing and tracking

Ignition Entertainment

Lead and 3D environment artist. Florida

• Managed outsourcing artists
• Environment block-outs, props and decals for an unannounced UE3 first-person shooter (Xbox 360, PS3)
• Real-time destruction prototypes and in-game vignettes

The Art Institute of Portland

Lab technician

Support for Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya and Final Cut Pro.

The Art Institute of Portland

B.S., Game Art and Design.

Broadcasting and VTubing

Personal projects, as Catmemes on Twitch, YouTube and Kick

• Export Path Dock: open-source OBS Studio plugin in C++ and Qt
• Machinima season intros for a World of Warcraft guild's raid videos, directed and edited in Premiere Pro
• VTuber avatar: generated illustration, cleaned up by hand, rigged in Live2D
• Avatar driven by webcam, microphone and game controller using VTube Studio

Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Featured in the Blizzard Entertainment Fan Art program.